Ecquis, ec, qua, ecquod & ecquid. pro Et quis, t in c mutato. Heus ecquis in villa est? Plau. Is there any body in the farme?Percontabor ecquis adolescentem nouerit. Plau. I will aske whether any man did know the yong fellow.Ecquis homo ad Annibalem transfugerit. Li. Whether any man, &c.Ecquo de homine? Cicer.Of whome? or of what man? of any man?Inuestigent ecqua virgo sit, an mulier, &c.Cic.Let thÊ looke whether there be any maide, or woman.Ecquod iudicium Romæ tam dissolutum fore putasti. Cice. Ecquid de illo quod dudum tecum egi? Terent.Did est thou speake any thing of that which I talked with thee of, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ecquis, ecquid (abl. ecqui, v. infra, II. B.), pron. interrog. subst., Is there any one who? Any, any one, any body, any thing? in impassioned interrogation, i. q. num quis, quid (class.). I. Prop.: aperite hoc: heus, ecquis hic est? ecquis hoc aperit ostium?Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 12; so, ecquis, id. Bacch. 4, 1, 9 sq.; id. Most. 4, 2, 19 sq.; id. Capt. 2, 3, 99 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 16 sq.; Liv. 3, 68; Verg. A. 9, 51; Hor. S. 2, 7, 34 al.: ecquid, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 58; id. Curc. 1, 2, 39; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 34; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 62; id. Att. 12, 7; id. Fam. 7, 11; Liv. 40, 40 al.: eccui, Cic. Mur. 33: ecquem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 42; Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8, 15 et saep.— With suffix nam, Cic. Vatin. 16; id. Fin. 4, 24; id. Top. 21; Auct. Her. 2, 17: quid huc tantum hominum incedunt? ecquidnam afferunt?Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5.—B.Adj. for ecqui: ecquis alius Sosia intu'st, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 226; id. Most. 2, 1, 7; id. Men. 4, 2, 110; Liv. 23, 12 fin.; Verg. E. 10, 28; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 15 al.—II. Hence, derivv. the adverbs, A. ecquid, i. q. numquid, num, whether, perchance, in direct and indirect interrogation: ecquid audis?
Do you hear?
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 29; id. Aul. 2, 3, 3; id. Curc. 2, 8, 19; id. Bacch. 1, 2, 53 al.; Ter. And. 5, 2, 30; id. Eun. 2, 2, 48; Cic. Clu. 26, 71; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122; id. Rep. 3, 11; id. Tusc. 1, 8; id. Att. 2, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 11 fin.; 4, 3; 5, 52; Verg. A. 3, 342; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 82 et saep.; cf. with tandem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: Tr. Ecquid placent (aedes)? Th. Ecquid placeant me rogas? Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 4; id. Bacch. 4, 10, 10; id. Mil. 3, 1, 114; 4, 2, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 16, 3; Liv. 27, 10; 44, 27.—Rarely (like quid) for cur, Liv. 42, 26.— B. ecqui, i. q. num aliqui, whether? in indirect interrog.: coepi observare, ecqui majorem filius mi honorem haberet, etc., whether, etc., Plaut. Aul. prol. 16 (but the true reading, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 15, and Plin. Ep. 6, 4, 2, is ecquid, v. Draeger, Hist Synt. I. p. 318).—C. ec-quo, i. q. num aliquo, anywhere? ecquo te tua virtus provexisset? ecquo industria? Cic. Phil. 13, 11, 24, cf. on these adverbs Hand, Turs. II. pp. 351-355.