# cui
## Classical Nahuatl
### Verb

cui
* (transitive) To take.
* (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
** 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic](please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Synonyms

* (sex) teca, yecoa, tetech ahci, cuicui

#### Derived terms

* cuicui
* cuiloni

### References

* Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
* Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 71
* Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cui. Compare Sicilian cui.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuj/
* Rhymes: -uj
* Hyphenation: cùi

### Pronoun

cui (relative)
* prepositional of che: whom; which
* (formal) dative of che: to whom; to which

#### Synonyms

* (prepositional): il quale
* (dative): a cui; al quale

#### Derived terms

* per cui

### Determiner

cui (invariable) (relative)
* (with definite article) whose
    la donna il cui nome ho scordato ― the woman whose name I’ve forgotten
    la donna le cui amiche sono incinte ― the woman whose friends are pregnant

### References

* ↑ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 139

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* quoi, quoei, quoiei (Old Latin)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kui̯/, [kʊi̯]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kuj/, [kuj]

### Pronoun

cui
* to whom? (interrogative); dative singular of quis

### Pronoun

cui
* to whom, to which (relative); dative singular of quī

### Adjective

cui
* to what?, to which? (interrogative); dative singular of quī

#### Related terms

* cui bonō (“who benefits”)
* cui malō (“who suffers”)

#### Descendants

* Italian: cui
* Old French: cui
* Romanian: cui

### See also

* cui bono on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono? the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)

## Lombard
### Alternative forms

* cuu (Milanese classical orthography)
* cüü (Ticinese orthography)
* cüi (Eastern modern orthographies)

### Pronunciation

* (Western Lombard) IPA: /kyːi/, [kyː(i̯)]
* (Eastern Lombard) IPA: /kyːi/, [ky(ː)i̯]

### Noun

cui
* plural of cul (“arse, bum”)

## Mandarin
### Romanization

cui
* Nonstandard spelling of cuī.
* Nonstandard spelling of cuí.
* Nonstandard spelling of cuǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of cuì.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Old French
### Pronoun

cui
* Alternative form of qui

## Old Occitan
### Pronoun

cui
* who; whom
** c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo rossinhols s'esbaudeya:Mas no sai de que ni de cui,But I don't know of what or of whom,

### See also

* que

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* cuni (Banat Dialect)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuj/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).

#### Noun

cui n (plural cuie)
* nail (metal fastener), pin
* (slang) marijuana cigarette

##### Derived terms

* cuier
* cuia
* cuișor

##### Related terms

* încuia
* descuia

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cui.

#### Pronoun

cui (genitive/dative form of cine)
* whose
* to whom

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* cu (Misspelled)

### Etymology

From Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku.i/
* IPA: /ku/ (Apocopic form)
* Rhymes: -cui
* Hyphenation: cù‧i

### Pronoun

cui
* who, whom

#### Usage notes

The apocopic form cu' is prevalent in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.

#### Derived terms

* cu'
* cuegghiè
* cuegghiadè
* cuegghiarè

## Spanish
### Noun

cui m (plural cuis)
* Alternative spelling of cuy

### Further reading

* “cui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10