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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• what (pron.):
    1. I. Interrogative, independent or dependent:
      1. 1. quid (used substantively): what do you want? quid tibi vis? Hor.: take care what you do, vide quid agas, Ter.: what if he restore it? quid si reddet? Ter.: what? have you brought your daughter? quid? adduxtin' filiam? Ter.
      2. 2. quidnam (what, pray? the termination "nam" adds liveliness to the question): I come back to see what Chaerea is doing here, reviso quidnam Chaerea hic agat, Ter.
      3. 3. ecquid (asks with expectation of negative): what hope is there further? ecquid spei porrost? Ter.
      4. 4. quis (used adjectively for what, chiefly with substantives which denote a person: cf. Madvig Lat. Gr. 88, 1: what senator? quis senator? Cic.: in such cases the inquiry seems after the name only, and not, as with "qui," after the character.
      5. 5. qui, quae, quod (an inquiry after character, kind, etc. is usually implied): what Chaerea? qui Chaerea? Ter.: what sweeter song can be found? what more pleasant actor? qui cantus dulcior inveniri potest? qui actor jucundior? Cic.: what power have I? quae in me est facultas? Cic.
      6. 6. quinam (a mere strengthening of qui).
      7. 7. quālis (of what kind, sort): what honour, what natural affection think you that they possess? quali fide, quali pietate existimatis eos esse? Cic.
      8. 8. quantus (of what an amount, how great): for what did he buy it? quanti emit? Ter.
    2. II. Exclamatory: quid (substantive); qui, qualis, quantus (adjectives), with distinctions as given above: O what embracings, what joys there were! O qui complexus, et gaudia quanta fuerunt! Hor. S. 1, 5, 43: O what an appearance, and worthy of what a picture! O qualis facies et quali digna tabella! Juv. 10, 157. What in this use may also be rendered by "quam" with adj.: what a shameful deed! quam indignum facinus! Ter.
    3. III. Relative: equivalent to that which:
      1. 1. quod: why do you wish for what you possess? cur optas quod habes? Hor.
      2. 2. quae, n. pl. (if, as frequently in English, the relative what sums up several things): what you have written to me I feel to be true, quae ad me scripsisti ea sentio esse vera, Cic.