quid ais
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷid ˈa.is/, [kᶣɪd ˈa.ɪs]
Phrase
- (idiomatic) what do you say?, how say you?
- c. 190–185, Plautus, Amphitryon I.1.363:
- SOSIA: Amphitruo, qui nunc praefectust Thebanis legionibus, quicum nupta est Alcumena.
MERCURY: Quid ais? Quid nomen tibi est?- SOSIA: Amphitryon, who is now the general of the Theban forces, to whom Alcmena is married.
MERCURY: How say you? What's your name?
- SOSIA: Amphitryon, who is now the general of the Theban forces, to whom Alcmena is married.
- SOSIA: Amphitruo, qui nunc praefectust Thebanis legionibus, quicum nupta est Alcumena.
- asking for a meaning, opinion or judgement; what do you mean?, what do you say? what do you think?
- c. 185 BCE – 159 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 3.2:
- THAIS: Ita me Di ament honestus est.
PARMENO: Quid tu ais, Gnatho? Numquid habes quod contemnas? Quid tu autem Thraso? Tacent; satis laudant. Fac periclum in literis, fac in palaestra, in musicis: quae liberum scire aequum est adolescentem solertem dabo.- THAIS: God bless me, he's handsome.
PARMENO: What say you, Gnatho? Do you see any thing to find fault with? And what say you, Thraso? They hold their tongues; they praise him sufficiently thereby. Make trial of him in literature, try him in exercises,1 and in music; I'll warrant him well skilled in what it becomes a gentleman to know.
- THAIS: God bless me, he's handsome.
- THAIS: Ita me Di ament honestus est.
- what is your opinion? what do you say?
- Sed quid ais?
- But what do you say?
See also
- āiens (genitive: āientis); affirming, affirmative (usually affirmativus)
- negantia contraria aientibus
- hunc ais? (do you mean this man?; vide etiam; hunc dicis?)
- quid agis?
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