quolibet

Extracted from the Medieval Latin phrase dispūtātiōnes de quōlibet.

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quolibet m (plural quolibets)

1. gibe, taunt

• → Romanian: quolibet

• “quolibet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From quō +‎ -libet.

quōlibet (not comparable)

1. whithersoever (to wherever it pleases; in whatever place)

   In quolibet barbariae angulo colloceris...

   In whatever corner of the barbarian world you would be...(Seneca)

• → French: quolibet
  • → Romanian: quolibet

• “quolibet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quolibet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quolibet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French quolibet.

quolibet n (uncountable)

1. quip, gibe, taunt