quinam

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

quī-nam, quaenam, quodnam,

pron. interrog. , who , which , what , pray (anteclass.): quinam homo hic ante aedes ejulans conqueritur? Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 17: quinam Tantalidarum internecioni modus sit? Att. ap. Charis. p. 70 P.: quodnam ob facinus? Ter. Heaut. 956; rarely = uter, which of two? Hi perpetuas inter se controversias habebant, quinam anteferretur, Caes. B. G. 5, 44.

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