quicumque

• quīcunque
• quīcũque
• qui ... cumque (with tmesis/diacope)

From quī +‎ -cumque. Quicunque is a later development reflecting the assimilated pronunciation.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiːˈkun.kʷe/, [kᶣiːˈkʊŋ.kᶣɛ]

quīcumque m (feminine quaecumque, neuter quodcumque)

1. whoever, whatever
2. whosoever, whatsoever

• quīcumque is used both adjectivally and substantivally.
• Cato is cited with the archaic plural form quescumque (from ques).

• The dative or ablative plural is also quīscumque.

• English: quicumque vult, quicunque vult
• French: quiconque
• Italian: chiunque

• Gajus Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Jugurthinum In: Sallust with an English translation by J. C. Rolfe, 1921, p. 362f.:

  Eos ad Marium ac deinde, si placeat, Romam legatos ire iubet ; agundarum rerum et quocumque modo belli componundi licentiam ipsis permittit.

  These he ordered to go as envoys to Marius and then, if it seemed advisable, to Rome, giving them complete freedom of action and permission to make peace on any terms.

• 43 B.C., letter of Asinius Pollio to Cicero. In: Cicero The Letters to his Friends with an English translation by W. Glynn Williams, vol. II of three volumes, 1952, p. 402f.:

  Ita si id agitur, ut rursus in potestate omnia unius sint, quicumque is est, ei me profiteor inimicum.

  If therefore events are so developing as to put all power again in the hands of one man, whosoever that man is, I declare myself his foe;

• Propertius, liber IV (of four books). In: Propertius with an English translation by H. E. Butler, 1916, p. 262f.:

  Hoc quodcumque vides, hospes, qua maxima Roma est,
  ante Phrygem Aenean collis et herba fuit;

  All that thou beholdest, stranger, where mighty Rome lies spread, was grass and hill before the coming of Phrygian Aeneas;

• Cornelius Nepos, Datames

  Namque is pollicitus est regi se eum interfecturum, si ei rex permitteret, ut, quodcumque vellet, liceret impune facere, fidemque de ea re more Persarum dextra dedisset. [1]

  for Mithridates promised the king that he would kill Datames, if the king would allow him to do with impunity whatever he wished, and would give him a pledge to that effect with his right hand after the manner of the Persians. [2]

• quīcumque (or -cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quīcumque (not -cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quīcumquĕ (-cunquĕ), quæc-, quodc- in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1298