whatever Copy link Outline 1. quīcunque2. quisquis • whatever: 1. quīcunque: used both adjectively and, in the neuter, substantively: by whatever method I could, quacunque potui ratione, Cic.: whatever you see, quodcunque vides, Prop.: with genitive of noun: whatever soldiers you can gather, quodcunque militum contrahere poteritis, Cic. Att. 8, 12, A. 2. quisquis: the neuter quicquid is chiefly substantive, constr. like quodcunque; but in other genders and cases it is used adjectively: whatever man, quisquis homo, Pl.: with whatever design he did it, quoquo consilio fecit, Cic. ("Quicunque" and "quisquis" are both used when among a number of specimens in a class none is excepted; but "quisquis" appears more summarily to dismiss the specimens as equal among themselves: e. g.: quodcunque est, tibi habe, take all that there is: quicquid est tibi habe, take anything or everything that there is, it is all the same. Perhaps too "quicquid" leaves it more uncertain whether there is much or little).