utrum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →uter, utra, utrum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
which (of two), whichever, no matter which; one, either, one or other;; (w/que) each/either (of two); both (separately); each side (pl.), each set;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →utrum:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
whether; (introducing an indirect question); [utrum...an => whether...or];
- Entry →uter, utris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
skin; wine/water skin; bag/bottle made of skin/hide; (inflated for flotation);
gen. pl. - Entry →uter, utris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
skin; wine/water skin; bag/bottle made of skin/hide; (inflated for flotation);
gen. pl.
Examples
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...domo supplicium de servo non quam acerbissumum sumpserit, utrum is clemens ac misericors an inhumanissimus et crudelissimus esse..."Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...nisi te audire vellem, censes haec dicturum fuisse? Utrum igitur percurri omnem Epicuri disciplinam placet..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...profundunt, an quodam animi ardore atque impetu concitati? utrum tandem censes, Torquate, Imperiosum illum, si nostra verba audiret..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...cognita ratione naturae et vitae etiam deorum, et utrum conveniat necne natura hominis cum universa. quaeque sunt vetera..."Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...littera commota sit, fore tota ut labet disciplina. Utrum igitur tibi litteram videor an totas paginas commovere..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...illud ipsum, quod studet, facere possit ornatius. Sed utrum hortandus es nobis, Luci, inquit, an etiam tua sponte..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...servare potes, tu perdere solus amantem: elige, utrum facias. non hoc inimica precatur, sed quae, cum tibi..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...sodalis— Cinna est Gaius—is sibi paravit. verum, utrum illius an mei, quid ad me? utor tam bene..."
