Latin

Adverb

ubinam ‎(not comparable)

1. where in the world

   In quā non video, ubinam mens constans possit insistere.

Usage notes

• The adverbs ubī ‎(“where”), ubinam ‎(“where in the world?”), ubīcumque ‎(“wherever”) and ubīubī are sometimes used with the genitive of terra ‎(“land”) (singular: terrarum), locus ‎(“place”) (singular: loci, plural: locorum), nation (singular: gentium), to detonate the same meaning as "where on earth". "in what country" or "where in the world":

  Ubinam est is homo gentium?

  Where in the world is this man?

  • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

    O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.

    O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?

References

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