Robert Grosseteste

On Mountains

Latin Grammar: Compounds of quis: quisque, quisquam

Item, quasi terre naturalis planicies est gradus cuiusque boni, ad quem gradum et non supra pertingit communitas hominum, quasi igitur montes sunt qui supra hunc gradum in quovis bono pertingunt.

You have probably met the pronoun quis before; this pronoun is very common in Latin, both by itself and in compounds. There are lots of these, but two common and useful compounds are quisque and quisquam. Quisque means "each" or "every," and quisquam means "any at all." They are declined just like quis.

Exercise: Fill in the correct form of the pronoun given.

1. Ascendi (quisque) montem.
2. Cibum dedi (quisque, dat.).
3. Non vidit (quisquam, acc.).
4. Non scio nomen (quisquam, gen.).
5. Non eunt (quisquam, abl.).
6. Didici sententias (quisque, gen.).
7. (quisque) patria habet suos montes.
8. Etna est mons periculosus (quisque, dat.).
9. Utor (quisque, abl.) consiliorum.
10. (quisque) via me fallit.

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