quier

Spanish

Conjunction

quier ... quier

1. (archaic) whether; be it; whether it be; should it be
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Únicamente ocuparon los ociosos ratos fervientes elogios de la acción heroica de D. Silvestre, comentándola quier por el lado humano, quier por el divino

     Idle moments were solely occupied by the fervent praise for the heroic action of Don Silvestre, commenting on it either from the human side, or from the divine side.

Verb

quier

1. Apocopic form of quiere

Usage notes

• In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).

Further reading

• “quier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28