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quot homines tot sententiæ

UK/ˌkwɒt ˈhɒmɪneɪz ˌtɒt sɛnˈtɛntɪaɪ/

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Latinate[ˌkʷot ˈhomineːs ˌtot senˈtentiai]

quot homines tot sententiæ phrase: there are as many opinions as there are people who hold them.

Phrase

quot homines tot sententiæ

  1. There are as many opinions as there are people who hold them.
    • Different auditors, as he observes, have different habitudes; so that, were we to put this assertion to the proof by particular applications, we should possibly find quot homines tot sententiæ.1995, Brian Vickers, William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, page 133

Origin of quot homines tot sententiæ

From Latin, echoing line 454 of Terence’s Phormio: quot (“how many”) + hominēs (“men”, “people”; nominative plural form of homō: “man”, “person”) + tot (“so many”) + sententiae (“opinions”, “thoughts”; nominative plural form of sententia: “opinion”, “thought”).

Questions about quot homines tot sententiæ

What does quot homines tot sententiæ mean?
Quot homines tot sententiæ means there are as many opinions as there are people who hold them.
What part of speech is quot homines tot sententiæ?
Quot homines tot sententiæ is a phrase.
How do you pronounce quot homines tot sententiæ?
Quot homines tot sententiæ is pronounced [ˌkʷot ˈhomineːs ˌtot senˈtentiai] (Latinate).

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