Alternative forms

• unquam (later)

Etymology

Perhaps from *quomquam, from quom (later cum) and quam (“any”). Compare cumque, ultimately from cum +‎ -quam (“any”)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -quam#UMQUAM.

For the loss of the initial velar, see ubi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊŋ.kʷãː]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#UMQUAMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#UMQUAM
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈum.kʷam]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#UMQUAMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#UMQUAM

Adverb

umquam (not comparable)Category:Latin lemmas#UMQUAMCategory:Latin adverbs#UMQUAMCategory:Latin uncomparable adverbs#UMQUAMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#UMQUAMCategory:Pages with entries#UMQUAMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UMQUAM

1. (chiefly in the negativeCategory:Latin negative polarity items#UMQUAM) at any time, ever; (with negative) never
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.246–247:

     “Tunc etiam fātīs aperit Cassandra futūrīs
     ōra deī iussū nōn umquam crēdita Teucrīs.”

     “Then once more Cassandra had spoken, revealing the future: A voice [which], by decree of a god, the Trojans were never to believe.”
     (See also: Cassandra.)

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#UMQUAM

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ŭmquam”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 26

Further reading

• “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “umquam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
    

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