Quisnam, Interrogatiuum est. Ter. Who?Quisnam homo est? P. ego sum. D. ô Pamphile. Ter. Who is that?Quisnam igitur liber? Hor.Infinitu aliquando. Pl. Delphini quonam modo audiant, mirum. It is macuel how Dolphines do heare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quīni, ae, a (gen. plur. quinum, Col. 4, 30; Pandect. 40, 9, 5: quinorum not found), num. distr. adj. [quinque]. I.Five each: quini in lectulis, Cic. Pis. 27, 67: pedes, Caes. B. G. 3, 73: ordines, id. ib. 7, 23: versus, Nep. Att. 18, 6: milia peditum, Liv. 8, 8: ova pariunt, Col. 8, 14, 5: aureorum, Dig. 40, 9, 5.—II. In gen., five: minae, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 111: bis quinos silet dies, Verg. A. 2, 126: armenta, id. ib. 7, 538: nomina principum, Liv. 28, 26.— In sing.: lex me perdit quina vicenaria, i.e. a law invalidating contracts entered into before the age of twenty-five (the lex Plaetoria; v. Cic. Off. 1, 15, 61), Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 69: scrobes non altiores quino semipede, i. e.
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.
