WHENCE Copy link • WHENCEInterrogative, (1) Of place, unde? ex aliquo loco? whence are you? (i. e., of what country?) cujas es? when he was asked whence he came, quura interrogaretur, cujatem se esse diceret. (2) Of persons, means, etc., unde? a or ex quo homine? (from whom?) ex aliqua re? (from what?) whence have you this? a quo hoc accepisti (general term) =? unde datum hoc sumis? (who gave you this?) unde id scis? (how do you know this?) whence comes it, that? unde fit, ut, etc. Relative, (1) Of place, unde: ab aliquo loco: ex quo loco. They returned to the place whence they came, reversi sunt, unde profecti erant. (2) Of a cause or source, unde. Whence it comes that, unde, or ex quo, fit, ut; qua ex re fit, ut.