quoniam

quoniam (plural quoniams)

1. (slang, obsolete) A kind of drinking-cup.

From quom +‎ iam.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷon.jam/, [ˈkʷɔn.jã]

quoniam (+ ind)

1. since, for (as conjunction) + a reason
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:18

     quoniam fīliī sānctōrum sumus et vītam illam expectāmus quam Deus datūrus est hīs quī fidem suam numquam mūtant ab eō (For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.)

2. now that

• Catalan: quòniam

• quoniam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quoniam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quoniam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quoniam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Learned borrowing from Latin quoniam (“since”), probably as an educated respelling/euphemism of Old French conin (“coney, rabbit”). Compare queynte and cunt.

quoniam

1. The vulva.