quŏt (in MSS. often quŏd), adj. plur. indecl. [kindr. with Sanscr. kati, quot, like tot, Sanscr. tati].
I Lit., how many , as many , as : quot sunt? Sce. Totidem, quot ego et tu sumus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 6; id. Most. 3, 1, 114: quot homines, tot sententiae, Ter. Phorm. 454: quot homines, tot causae, Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 140: quot dies erimus in Tusculano, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: quot calamitates! id. ib. 1, 35, 86: quot orationum genera esse diximus, totidem oratorum reperiuntur, id. Or. 16, 53: idque declarat totidem quot dixit, scripta verbis oratio, id. Brut. 96, 328; Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 47; Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; Juv. 7, 225.—
B For quotiens; toties, quot, as often as , Liv. 2, 13, 2.—
II Transf., in specifications of time, all , each , every : quot diebus, every day , daily : quot mensibus, every month , monthly : quot annis, often as one word, quotannis (in inscrr. also, QVOD ANNIS), every year , yearly , annually : quot Kalendis petere cibum, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 3: quot mensibus fodere, Cato R. R. 43, 2: quotannis tributa conferre, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131: hic illum vidi juvenem, Meliboee, quot annis, Verg. E. 1, 43: quot annos singula milia, Caes. B. G. 4, 1: Pomponius scribit, nihil interesse, utrum in annos singulos, vel quot annis; an in singulos menses, vel quot mensibus; an in singulos dies, vel quot diebus legatur, Dig. 36, 2, 12: sedulum quot dies obibam culturae sacrorum ministerium, Ap. Met. 11, 22, 3.