quīcumque (or -cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque (also separately: cum quibus erat cumque una, Ter. And. 63; quam se cumque in partem, Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59. — Old form of the plur. quescumque, Cato ap. Charis. p. 70 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 960 P.), pron. rel.
I Whoever , whatever , whosoever , whatsoever , every one who , every thing that , all that (class.): quicumque is est, ei me, etc., whosoever , Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 8: quoscumque de te queri audivi, quācumque potui ratione placavi, whomsoever I have heard complaining , them I have satisfied in every possible way , id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4: petere fortunam, quaecumque accidat, what fortune soever , Caes. B. G. 1, 31: ut quodcumque vellet, liceret facere, Nep. Dat. 10, 1.—Rarely with subj. in orat. rect.: quocumque haec modo se habeant, Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 114.—
2 Absol. (Cic., Caes., and Sall. always construe quicumque as rel. with its own verb, except in abl. sing.; v. infra; as absol. for quivis or quilibet, freq. in Liv. and post-Aug. writers; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 706), any whatever , etc.: te audio (libenter) quācumque de re, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 1: qui quācumque de causā ad eos venerunt, Caes. B. C. 6, 23: quocumque modo, Sall. J. 103, 3: laeti quamcunque condicionem paciscendi acceperunt, Liv. 22, 58, 5: ubicumque et quācumque matre genitus, id. 1, 3, 3: qui de quācumque causā tum aspernati nostra auxilia estis, id. 45, 23, 6: quācumque condicione arma viris auferre, id. 9, 9, 11: quocumque gladiatorio munere prolapsi, Suet. Claud. 34: Ciceronem cuicunque eorum opponere, Quint. 10, 1, 105. —In neutr. subst. , with gen., whatever , however much : quodcumque est lucri, i. e. all the profit , Phaedr. 5, 6, 3: quodcumque militum contrahere poteritis, as many troops as ever you can bring together , Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 4: quodcunque hoc regni, all this authority , Verg. A. 1, 78.—When the rel. occurs twice or oftener in the same connection, only qui is repeated: quaecunque navis ex Asiā, quae ex Syriā, quae, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145: hoc quodcumque vides, Prop. 4, 1, 1.—
B In partic., for qualiscumque, howsoever constituted , of whatever kind : quaecumque mens illa fuit, Gabinii fuit, Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 21. —
II Transf., each or every possible , each , every , all : quae sanari poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo, in every possible way , Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11: et quocumque modo maluit esse mea, under all circumstances , Prop. 1, 8, 34 (1, 8, b, 8): de quācumque causā, Liv. 45, 23.