Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quisquis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quisquis
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

Whoever, whosoever.

adj

Synonym of quisquous.

Example Sentences

"A drastic method this last to make sere of a full meeting and no shirkers of a “quisquis” business—evidently meaning a delicate and difficult one; a rare expression not found elsewhere in these papers."

Etymology

Shared with quisquous and quiscoskos; from Latin quisquis (“whosoever”) or by reduplication of Latin quis (“of what kind”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: quisquis, quis

Inflected Forms

quis-quis (alternative) more quisquis (comparative) most quisquis (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

quisquous quiscoskos

Synonyms

quisquous

Questions

What does quisquis mean?: Whoever, whosoever.
Where does quisquis come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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