quisnam

quisnam, quaenam, quidnam, pron. interrog. [quis-nam], who, which, what pray (class.).

I.

In direct interrogation:

quisnam igitur tuebitur P. Scipionis memoriam mortui?

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 36, § 80:

sed earum artificem quem? Quemnam?

id. ib. 2, 4, 3, § 5: cruciatur cor mihi et metuo. Ca. Quidnam id est? Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 45:

sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimatum video?

for what pray? why pray? Ter. And. 1, 4, 7; id. Ad. 3, 2, 7; id. And. 2, 6, 18:

quisnam igitur liber?

Hor. S. 2, 7, 83.— Sometimes joined, pleon., with num:

num quidnam amplius tibi cum illā fuit?

pray had you nothing further to do with her? Ter. And. 2, 1, 25:

num quisnam praeterea? nemo est,

any body else? Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107:

num quidnam, Crassus inquit, novi?

is there any thing new? id. de Or. 2, 3, 13.—

Sometimes separated: in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti?

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 13:

quid tu, malum, nam me retrahis?

id. Rud. 4, 3, 8; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 26.— Quisnam as fem.:

quis ea est nam optuma?

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 16.—

In the poets nam sometimes stands before quis: nam quae haec anus est?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

nam quis te nostras Jussit adire domos?

Verg. G. 4, 445. —

II.

In indirect discourse:

reviso, quidnam Chaerea hic rerum gerat,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 1:

ut sciam num quidnam afferat, etc.,

id. And. 1, 4, 8:

miserunt Delphos consultum, quidnam facerent de rebus suis,

Nep. Them. 2.