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quirquir

quirquir

Latin

Adverb

quirquir (not comparable)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. Some type of emphatic interrogative or relative adverb, probably meaning “wherever.”

Usage notes

This term appears only in a difficult-to-translate augural formula cited in Var., L. 7.8:

templa tescaque m(eae) fines ita sunto
quoad ego easte lingua nuncupavero
ollaner arbos quirquir est quam me sentio dixisse
templum tescumque m(ea) f(inis) esto in sinistrum
ollaber arbos quirquir est quod me sentio dixisse
templum tescumque m(ea) f(inis) esto ⟨in⟩ dextrum
inter ea conregione conspicione cortumione
utique eas rectissime sensi.[2]

References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cūr”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 155-156
  2. Palmer, Leonard Robert. The Latin Language. University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. 66
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