[Special Vocabulary]
incolumis, -e\, _unharmed_
ne: ... quidem\, adv., not
even. The emphatic word stands between
ne:\ and quidem\
nisi\, conj., _unless, if ... not_
paene\, adv., almost (pen-insula)
satis\, adv., _enough, sufficiently_
(satisfaction)
tantus, -a, -um\, so great
ve:ro:\, adv., _truly, indeed, in fact_.
As a conj. _but, however_,
usually stands second, never
first.
de:cido:, de:cidere, de:cidi:, ——\, _fall down_ (deciduous) de:silio:, de:sili:re, de:silui:, de:sultus\, leap down, dismount maneo:, mane:re, ma:nsi:, ma:nsu:rus\, _remain_ tra:du:co:, tra:du:cere, tra:du:xi:, tra:ductus\, lead across
296. The indefinite pronouns are used to refer to some person or some thing, without indicating which particular one is meant. The pronouns quis\ and qui\, which we have learned in their interrogative and relative uses, may also be indefinite; and nearly all the other indefinite pronouns are compounds of quis\ or qui\ and declined almost like them. Review the declension of these words, Secs. 221, 227.
297. Learn the declension and meaning of the following indefinites:
MASC. FEM.
NEUT.
quis quid, some one, any
one (substantive)
qui: qua or quae quod, some, any
(adjective), Sec. 483
aliquis aliquid, some one, any
one
(substantive), Sec.
487
aliqui: aliqua aliquod, some,
any (adjective), Sec. 487
qui:dam quaedam quoddam, quiddam, a
certain,
a certain one,
Sec. 485
quisquam quicquam or quidquam (no
plural), any one
(at all) (substantive),
Sec. 486
quisque quidque, each one, every
one
(substantive), Sec.
484
quisque quaeque quodque, each, every
(adjective), Sec. 484
[Transcriber’s Note:
In the original text, the combined forms (masculine/feminine)
were
printed in the “masculine” column.]
NOTE. The meanings of the neuters, something, etc., are easily inferred from the masculine and feminine.
a. In the masculine
and neuter singular of the indefinites,
quis-forms and quid-forms
are mostly used as substantives,
qui-forms and quod-forms as
adjectives.
b. The indefinites quis\ and qui\ never stand first in a clause, and are rare excepting after si\, nisi\, ne:\, num\ (as, si quis, if any one; si quid, if anything; nisi quis, unless some one). Generally aliquis\ and aliqui\ are used instead.
c. The forms qua\ and aliqua\ are both feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative plural of the indefinite adjectives qui\