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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cui"
Classical Nahuatl
Verb
cui
- (transitive) To take.
- (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:
- Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
- (sex) teca, yecoa, tetech ahci, cuicui
Derived terms
References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 71
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216
Italian
Etymology
From Latin cui.[1] Compare Sicilian cui.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
cui (relative)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Determiner
cui (invariable) (relative)
- (with definite article) whose
- la donna il cui nome ho scordato ― the woman whose name I’ve forgotten
- la donna le cui amiche sono incinte ― the woman whose friends are pregnant
References
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kui̯/, [kʊi̯]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuj/, [kuj]
Pronoun
cui
Pronoun
cui
Adjective
cui
Related terms
- cui bonō – who benefits
- cui malō – who suffers
Descendants
See also
References
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
- the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
- this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
- who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
Lombard
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
cui
Mandarin
Romanization
cui
- Nonstandard spelling of cuī.
- Nonstandard spelling of cuí.
- Nonstandard spelling of cuǐ.
- Nonstandard spelling of cuì.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Old French
Pronoun
cui
- Alternative form of qui
Old Occitan
Pronoun
cui
- who; whom
- c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo rossinhols s'esbaudeya:
- Mas no sai de que ni de cui,
- But I don't know of what or of whom,
See also
Romanian
Alternative forms
- cuni (Banat Dialect)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).
Noun
cui n (plural cuie)
Declension
Declension of cui
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Pronoun
cui (genitive/dative form of cine)
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- cu (Misspelled)
Etymology
From Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
cui
Usage notes
The apocopic form cu' is prevalent in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.
Derived terms
Spanish
Noun
cui m (plural cuis)
- Alternative spelling of cuy
Further reading
- “cui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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