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inquam.

to say

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈɪŋ.kʷãː]Classical-Latin[ˈiŋ.kʷam]
  1. to say

    no-infinitive
Where this word comes from

Not entirely clear. Possibly from Old Latin *insquom, compare īnsece and īnseque (“say!”, imperative). From Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-sékʷ-t, the *h₁en-prefixed form of the aorist stem of Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”) that has been thematicized in both Latin and Ancient Greek ἐνέπω (enépō, “to tell”).

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