uterque
Latin
Etymology
From uter + -que. Compare Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌿𐌷 (ƕaþaruh), which may be inherited from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /uˈter.kʷe/, [ʊˈt̪ɛrkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /uˈter.kwe/, [uˈt̪ɛrkwe]
Pronoun
uterque (feminine utraque, neuter utrumque or utrunque); first/second-declension pronoun (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal; without or with m optionally → n in compounds)
- each of two or both.
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.4:
- Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.
- Thus each is feeble without the other.
- Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Ad Atticum 6.1.9:
- Sed credo te ... binas meas de omnibus rebus accepisse, ... utrasque tuis pueris datas.
- But I believe you ... received my two letters concerning all these things, ... both given to your children.
- Sed credo te ... binas meas de omnibus rebus accepisse, ... utrasque tuis pueris datas.
- perh. post 2nd c. CE but ancient, Hyginus astronomus, Poeticon Astronomicon 2.2:
- Nonnulli etiam Helicen et Cynosuram nymphas esse Iouis nutrices dicunt, et hac re etiam pro beneficio in mundo conlocatas, et utrasque Arctos appellatas esse, quas nostri Septentriones dixerunt.
- Some say the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are Jupiter's nursing nymphs, and for this reason they were placed on the world [sky] for our benefit, and were both named Arctos ("the Bears"), who we [the Romans] have also called the Septentriones ("the Northerners").
- Nonnulli etiam Helicen et Cynosuram nymphas esse Iouis nutrices dicunt, et hac re etiam pro beneficio in mundo conlocatas, et utrasque Arctos appellatas esse, quas nostri Septentriones dixerunt.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal; without or with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | uterque | utraque | utrumque utrunque |
utrīque | utraeque | utraque | |
Genitive | utrī̆usque | utrōrumque utrōrunque |
utrārumque utrārunque |
utrōrumque utrōrunque | |||
Dative | utrīque | utrīsque | |||||
Accusative | utrumque utrunque |
utramque utranque |
utrumque utrunque |
utrōsque | utrāsque | utraque | |
Ablative | utrōque | utrāque | utrōque | utrīsque | |||
Vocative | uterque | utraque | utrumque utrunque |
utrīque | utraeque | utraque |
Derived terms
Related terms
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References
- “uterque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “uterque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- uterque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
- (ambiguous) in both cases; whichever way you look at it: in utraque re
- to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
- uterque in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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