Lemma 1quis
pronoun
who? which? what? what man?Morphology
neuter nominative singularquid · regular
neuter vocative singularquid · regular
neuter accusative singularquid · regular
Lewis & Short
quis, quid QVES, S. C. Bacch., interrog. [ kis, in nakis = nemo; ], who? which? what? what man? (while qui, quae, quod, interrog. is used adject.; for exceptions, qui and infra. — Quis is properly used only of more than two; uter, which of two? ).
Masc. and fem. quis;
As , in a direct question.
Of males: Da. Quis homo est? Pa. Ego sum Pamphilus, who is there?.
Quis, of females, as and (ante- and ): et quis illaec est, quae? , Enn. (Trag. 133 Vahl.): quis tu es mulier, quae? , Pac. ; Müll.: quis nostrarum fuit, Caecil. : quis haec est simia? Afran.
As
, what? what sort of a person or thing? quis videor? Cha. Miser aeque atque ego, in what state or condition do I seem? what do you think of me now?.
With nouns.
With words denoting a person ().
(in Cic. only before a vowel, for qui).
In neutr.
In simple constr.
With partit., what? what sort of? what kind of a? quid mulieris Uxorem habes? what sort of a woman have you for a wife?
in phrase quid dico? what do I say? in correcting or strengthening the speaker's own expression.
Quid? how? why? wherefore? quid? tu me hoc tibi mandasse existimas, ut?
In quid? wherefore? for what?.
Quid, with particles; : quid ni, also in one word, quidni? why not? (in rhet. questions, while cur non expects an answer); always with ; quid si? how if? Caecin.
In indirect discourse: quis quem, who. whom? who. the other? considera, quis quem fraudasse dicatur, who is said to have defrauded whom?. — Quid with — Rarely for uter, which of two, whether: Weissenb. ad loc.; validior per Germaniam exercitus, propior aput Pannoniam.
indef.
As
Alone, any one, any body, any thing; some one, somebody, something.
In connection with si, ne, nisi, cum.
As
See quis and qui.