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quinam

quinam is a Latin form of quisnam, meaning “who?, what? (emphatic)”. It is the nominative plural masculine pronoun.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.44.2: Hi perpetuas inter se controversias habebant, quinam anteferretur, omnibusque annis de locis summis simultatibus contendebant.

Cicero, De Republica 1.56: … munis quasi doctores eruditorum hominum, qui tamquam oculis illa viderunt, quae nos vix audiendo cognoscimus. Quinam, inquit Laelius, isti sunt? Et ille: Qui natura omnium rerum pervestiganda senserunt omnem hunc mundum mente

Plautus, Aulularia 4.9.727: Quínam homo hic ante aédis nostras éiulans conquéritur maerens?

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.