ecqui

ecquī m (feminine equae or ecqua, neuter ecquod) (interrogative pronoun)

1. any

• ecquī is used adjectivally, and also substantivally:
  • Plautus, Stichus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. V of five volumes, 1952, p. 28f.:

    qui cena poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?

    Who offers a dinner? (silence) Anyone offer a lunch? (more silence)

• ecquī is attested in the plural:
  • Plautus, Pseudolus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. IV of five volumes, 1930, p. 200f.:

    Ecquas viginti minas
    paritas ut auferas a me?

    And you are making ready to get eighty pounds out of me ?

  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Ex Ponto, liber IV. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 464f.:

    ecquos tu silices, ecquod, carissime, ferrum
    duritiae confers, Albinovane, meae ?

    Can you compare any flint, Albinovanus, any iron to my endurance ?

• ecquis

• ecqui in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ecqui in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ecqui in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 570