(adjective) : quantus-vīs, tăvis, tumvis
* As much as you will, as great as you please, however great, ever so great (class.): et manus una regit quantovis impete euntem (navem),Lucr. 4, 903; 4, 1171: quantasvis magnas copias sustineri posse,Caes. B. G. 5, 28: portum satis amplum quantaevis classi,for any fleet, be it ever so large,Liv. 26, 42: cum faciem videas, videtur esse quantivis pretii,Ter. And. 5, 2, 15: ingenium hominis,Gell. 4, 1, 2.— Neutr. subst.: quantum-vīs, however great an amount, as much as you will, how much soever, ever so much: meretrici des quantumvis, nusquam apparet,Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 17: quantumvis tolle,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 16.—With gen.: quantumvis fiduciae et spiritūs capias,how much soever,Nazar. Pan. Const. 19. — Adverb., very, very indeed: quantumvis facundus et promptus,Suet. Calig. 53.
* For quamvis, although, albeit: ille catus, quantumvis rusticus,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 39 (ap. Cic. Lael. 20, 73, and Sen. Ep. 85, 12, the true read. is quamvis).