abusque

Latin

Alternative forms

• ab usque

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin ab

Latin usque

Latin abusque

From ab (“from”) + usque (“all the way”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈbʊs.kʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈbus.kʷe]

Preposition

abusque (+ ablative)

1. all the way from, from as far as, even from

References

• “abusque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abusque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers