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Translation

each, each one, every one

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Examples

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To each his own.

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Let each man do his duty.

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All the best men love their homeland.

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Each man's courage was known.

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He called each man by his own name.

Quisque, quaeque, quodque as an adjective, quicque or quidque as a noun, declines like quis and qui with the enclitic -que welded on. That means the case ending sits in the middle of the word: cuiusque, cuique, quemque, quoque, and the last of those is why the adverb quoque, "also", looks confusingly like a form of this pronoun.

Quisque is unemphatic and almost never opens its clause. It hides behind three things in particular. A reflexive: suum cuique, "to each his own". An ordinal, counted inclusively: quinto quoque anno is "every fifth year" by Roman reckoning, which is every four years by ours. And a superlative, where the idiom catches everyone once: optimus quisque means "all the best men", not "the very best man". Finally, keep the family apart. Quisque is "each"; quisquam is "anyone at all" and lives in negatives; quisquis is "whoever".

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 4: quisque, caelum, scio and 7 more words.