quaqua
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷaː.kʷaː/, [ˈkʷäːkʷäː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.kwa/, [ˈkwäːkwä]
Etymology 1
Reduplication of quā (“in what direction, where, by what way”). Quā and quāquā function as adverbs, but in form are the feminine ablative singulars of quis and quisquis respectively.
Adverb
quāquā (not comparable)
- wheresoever
Related terms
Latin correlatives (edit)
Etymology 2
See quisquis.
References
- “quaqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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