quotiens

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

quot + -iēns

Pronunciation

Adverb

quotiēns (not comparable)

  1. how often?, how many times
  2. as often, as often as, as many times as, whenever
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.351–353:
      “Mē patris Anchīsae, quotiēns ūmentibus umbrīs
      nox operit terrās, quotiēns astra ignea surgunt,
      admonet in somnīs et turbida terret imāgō.”
      “[I think] of my father Anchises, whenever dank shades of night shroud the lands, as often as fiery stars arise, he admonishes me in my dreams, and his troubled phantom frightens me.”

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • English: quotient
  • Portuguese: quociente

References

  • quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quotiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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