numquid

Latin

Etymology

Univerbation of num (“whether, if”) +‎ quid (“something”).

Adverb

numquid (not comparable)

1. is it possible?
2. surely not?
   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 828:

     Numquid nam tibi molestum est, gnāte mī, si haec nunc mēcum accubat?

   • 52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus 2.4.15:

     Numquid duās habētis patriās, an est ūna illa patria communis?

   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Saturae 1.4.52:

     [...] numquid Pompōnius istīs
     audīret leviōra, pater sī vīveret? [...]

Further reading

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