Meaning of ubi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. where? in what place?, in which place?
   interrogative, not-comparable
2. where or in a place where
   not-comparable, relative
3. when
   not-comparable, relative
4. as, as soon as, whenever, when
   not-comparable
5. in which, by which, with which; by whom, with whom
   informal, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Ubī̆?”

Where?

“Ubī̆ patera nunc est? — In cistulā.”

Where is the bowl now? — In the small chest.

“Ubī̆ inveniam Pamphilium? Ubī̆ quaeram?”

Where can I find Pamphilius? Where should I look?

“Ubī̆ sum?”

Where am I?

“Nesciō ubī̆ sim.”

I don't know where I am.

“Īcare, ubī̆ es?”

Icarus, where are you?

“Ubī̆ tyrannus est, ibī̆ plānē est nūlla rēs pūblica.”

Where there is a tyrant, there is clearly no republic.

““… saevus ubī̆ Aeacidae tēlō iacet Hector, ubī̆ ingēns Sarpēdōn, ubī̆ tot Simois correpta sub undīs scūta virum galeāsque et fortia corpora volvit!” “[Troy…], where fierce Hector lies, [pierced] by the spear of Achilles, where huge Sarpedon [perished], [and] where the [River] Simois has seized and rolled beneath its waves so many shields, helmets and bodies of brave men!” (The repetition of “ubī̆” exemplifies anaphora. “Aeacidae” is a patronymic: Achilles was the grandson “of Aeacus.” Read virorum for virum, a syncopated genitive plural. See also: Simois or Simoeis; Sarpedon.)”

“Ubī̆ carceri appropinquavit, portam apertam vidit. (Cambridge Latin course 3)”

When he approached the jail, he saw the open gate.

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