quī
quī
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷiː/, [kʷiː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwi/, [kwiː]
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From earlier quei, from Proto-Italic *kʷoi, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos.
- quei (standard Republican spelling, later especially to distinguish the plural)
- quoi, qoi (Early Latin)
quī (feminine quae, neuter quod); relative/interrogative pronoun
- See quis for the interrogative pronoun ("who?") or indefinite pronoun ("any(one)"), which share most but not all forms with the relative pronoun.
Irregular. Relative pronoun.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quī | quae | quod | quī1 | quae | ||
| Genitive | cuius1 | quōrum | quārum | quōrum | |||
| Dative | cui1 | quibus quīs1 | |||||
| Accusative | quem | quam | quod | quōs | quās | quae | |
| Ablative | quō | quā | quō | quibus quīs1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi or quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).
- An archaic ablative singular form (possibly originally deriving from a locative or instrumental formation; see adverb below) is quī, whence quīcum (“with whom”).
quī or quis (feminine quae or qua, neuter quod); relative/interrogative pronoun
- (interrogative) who, what, which [ quotations ▼]
- (indefinite, after si, nisi, num, ne) anyone, any [ quotations ▼]
Irregular. Interrogative/indefinite determiner.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quī1 quis |
quae qua2 |
quod | quī1 | quae | quae qua2 | |
| Genitive | cuius1 | quōrum | quārum | quōrum | |||
| Dative | cui1 | quibus quīs1 | |||||
| Accusative | quem | quam | quod | quōs | quās | quae qua2 | |
| Ablative | quō | quā | quō | quibus quīs1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi or quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).
2When used as an indefinite word (pronoun or adjective), the feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural is usually qua (with short ă) instead of quae. Indefinite quă is generally only found directly after sī, nisi, num, or nē and may be considered to be either enclitic to the preceding word or (in Priscian's view) forming a compound with it; accordingly, sīqua, numqua, and nēqua are sometimes written together (as also are the masculines sīquis, numquis, and nēquis). The form quă is never used for the feminine plural, nor for any form of the relative pronoun or of the interrogative pronoun or adjective.