Amount

Definition: Amount

Amount

Noun

1. How much of something is available; "an adequate amount of food for four people".

2. A quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient".

3. How much there is of something that you can measure.

4. A quantity obtained by addition.

Verb

1. Be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion".

2. Add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000".

3. Develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "amount" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Amount \A*mount"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Amounted; Amounting.]. (references)

Computing

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Amount

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Equality

Verb: be equal; Adjective: equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing.

Money

Verb: amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; indorse; (security); issue, utter; discount; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize, monetize.

Sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; sum total; proceeds;(receipts).

Numeration

Amount to, add up to, come to.

Price

Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a.

Amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in.

Quantity

Noun: quan magnitude; size; (dimensions); amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.

Whole

Verb: form a whole, integrate, embody, amass; aggregate; (assemble); amount to, come to.

All, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of,

Crosswords: Amount

Those fold-outs take a tremendous amount of space up, and I need space (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

If your initial investment is a half a million dollars and your apartments are up in March, you should have x amount of dollars rolling in by the end of this year (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

For a mechanic, you seem to do an incessant amount of thinking (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Ooh. Be lucky to find your penis for a piss, the amount you keep smoking (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

When you've been married to a man for forty years you know all that don't amount to a hill of beans (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

When all the answers, they don't amount to much (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

All of the money don't amount to you (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo)

A person's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid (reference)

• Amount Due MP3 Version (reference)

• Cooking With Less Iron: Easy-To-Prepare, Reasonably Priced Meals That Reduce the Amount of Iron in Your Diet (reference)

• Fast Lane to Fitness: The Busy Woman's Guide to Building a Sleek Physique in a Limited Amount of Time (reference)

• Food Values: Fats and Cholesterol: Lists the Amount of Cholesterol and Fat in More Than 8,000 Foods With Calorie Count for Each Food (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Mass Amount of Love (reference)

• Right Amount (reference)

• X Amount of Niceness (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Seen is a close-up of a technician's hand adjusting the amount of chemicals flowing into a beaker in the process of drug synthesis. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A volunteer performing a Winkler titration to determine the amount of dissolved oxygen in the waters of the estuary. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 41. Apstein instrument and graph for determining the depth of horizontal ly towed nets. First noted by Carl Apstein in 1909, this instrument was used for many years to determine the depth of net at various towing speeds and amount of tension on the towing line. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 43. A piston pipette used in determining the amount of plankton in a given volume of water. Used by Victor Hensen in 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Crop consultant draws a soil sample early in the crop year to test nitrogen availability in the soil. This late spring nitrogen test is meant to decide whether and how much nitrogen the growing crop needs for optimum production; only the amount of nitroge. Credit: Lynn Betts.

An NRCS technician measures the flow rate of irrigation water. Knowing the flow rate can help better manage the amount of irrigation water applied. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Since sheep are less affected by larkspur, they may be used to reduce the amount of it in mountain pastures before cattle are allowed to graze. In this study, range scientist Michael Ralphs records the sheep's plant preferences. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Lawrence Johnson, who is at the Germplasm and Gamete Physiology Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, has developed a system for sorting batches of livestock sperm cells based on the amount of DNA they carry. The X-bearing sperm carry more DNA, which can be measured using a fluorescent dye and a laser. Based on the light they emit, the X and Y sperm can be collected in separate tubes. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Technician Janet Chan adds a precise amount of B vitamin folate solution to a dish of applesauce. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel..

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All which seems no more than that duty, which God and nature has laid on man, as well as other creatures, to preserve their offspring, till they can be able to shift for themselves, and will scarce amount to an instance or proof of parents regal authority. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. (reference)

The amount of such claims may be assessed by an arbitrator appointed by Mr. (reference)

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And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune

On my return you can give me back the amount.

The fat man pumped the gasoline and the needle turned on the pump dial, recording the amount.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave

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Health

Reduce the amount of alcohol you drink. (references)

The frequency and amount of pain varies. (references)

Ingredients are listed in order of amount. (references)

Business

More than 90 percent of this amount was supplied locally. (references)

The United States accounts for only 3.2 per cent of this amount. (references)

Total inventories are defined as the total amount of goods on hand. (references)

Children

Benin

There is considerable amount of abuse in the practice, and there are instances of sexual exploitation. (references)

Canada

A small group of orphans is fighting to have that amount increased by religious orders and the Federal Government. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Children who were found were sent to orphanages and police holding centers, depending on the amount of space available. (references)

Civil Liberties

Philippines

Such remittances amount to nearly 10 percent of the gross national product. (references)

Liechtenstein

When a new agreement is reached, the agreed upon amount is to be released to the Catholic Church. (references)

Gambia

By year's end, Gaye had paid the entire amount; however, he had not been allowed to appear in the court or re-open the radio station. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Includes a small amount of non-core assets. (references)

France

They amount to more than $900 million annually. (references)

Kenya

No limits apply to the amount or period of cover. (references)

Human Rights

Equatorial Guinea

These cases arise from customary law, where the amount of money or goods due is set by traditional courts. (references)

Tanzania

The daily amount of food allotted to prisoners is insufficient to meet their nutritional needs, and even this amount is not provided regularly. (references)

Japan

A Justice Ministry regulation permits detention house officials to limit the amount of documentation related to ongoing court cases retained by prisoners. (references)

Indigenous People

Denmark

The compensation is substantially less than the amount that the defendants sued for, and the case remained under appeal in the Supreme Court at year's end. (references)

Malaysia

In June National Human Rights Commissioner Anuar Zainal Abidin identified violations of rights of indigenous people resulting from construction of the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, including the lack of freedom to choose a location for resettlement and the amount of compensation. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

The figure of $128 was accepted originally by the leaders of the Jewish Community who had negotiated with the Government; however, in December 2000, the Constitutional Court ruled that the negotiated amount was unconstitutional. (references)

Political Economy

EL SALVADOR

About $150 million of that amount was short-term. (references)

JORDAN

Banks may buy or sell an unlimited amount of foreign currency on a forward basis. (references)

Zambia

Zambia receives a significant amount of U.S. bilateral assistance, approximately $37 million in FY2001. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Residents may borrow abroad with no limit on the amount. (references)

Kenya

Remittances in excess of this amount require CBK approval. (references)

Azerbaijan

The GOAJ's inadequate IPR protections amount to a trade barrier. (references)

Travel

Greece

Foreign currency in any amount can be imported freely. (references)

Egypt

However, the amount and quality of furnishings vary greatly. (references)

France

One could pay less or a great deal more than this $234 amount. (references)

Women

Morocco

The husband must agree to the divorce and is allowed to specify the amount to be paid, without limit. (references)

Egypt

Muslim female heirs receive half the amount of a male heir's inheritance, while Christian widows of Muslims have no inheritance rights. (references)

Somalia

Under laws issued by the former government, female children could inherit property, but only half of the amount to which their brothers were entitled. (references)

Worker Rights

Uruguay

This amount approximates what a child might earn working on the street. (references)

Haiti

Employers in the assembly sector generally pay the minimum wage or higher amount. (references)

Cyprus

Neither amount is sufficient to provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "amount": a certain amount ♦ a certain amount of ♦ a fair amount ♦ a moderate amount ♦ accession compensatory amount ♦ amount brought forward ♦ amount carried forward ♦ amount claimed ♦ amount of money ♦ amount of precipitation ♦ amount of rainfall ♦ amount of tax ♦ amount of twist ♦ amount outstanding ♦ amount received ♦ amount remaining ♦ amount remaining this cycle ♦ amount to ♦ amount to be deducted ♦ amount written off ♦ an amount of ♦ any amount of ♦ Assigned Amount ♦ average amount ♦ basic amount ♦ be good for an amount ♦ book amount ♦ clear amount ♦ corrective amount ♦ deficient amount ♦ estimated amount ♦ excessive amount ♦ face amount ♦ fair amount ♦ final amount ♦ gross amount ♦ guarantee amount ♦ in great amount ♦ invoice amount ♦ it gives me a certain amount of pleasure ♦ large amount ♦ large indefinite amount ♦ maximum amount ♦ maximum benefit amount ♦ minimum amount ♦ monetary amount ♦ monetary amount function ♦ monetary amount type code qualifier ♦ monetary amount value ♦ monetary compensatory amount ♦ net amount ♦ notional amount ♦ of little amount ♦ rainfall amount ♦ required amount ♦ small amount ♦ small indefinite amount ♦ to the amount of ♦ total amount ♦ total amount funded by international R&D and innovation programmes as a percentage of the GERDR in a region in a given year ♦ total amount funded by international R&D and innovation programmes as a percentage of the gross domestic expenditure on R&D in a region in a given year ♦ twice the amount ♦ vast amount ♦ very small amount ♦ with a reasonable amount of luck. Additional references.

Beginning with "amount": amount-of-substance.

Ending with "amount": equilibrium-amount.

Containing "amount": face-amount certificate company.

Afrikaans

bedrag (sum), aantal (number). (various references)

Albanian

arrij (achieve, aggregate, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch), vlerë (asset, avail, caliber, calibre, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, quality, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), shumë (awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), sasi (body, greatness, intake, lot, lump, mass, number, pack, quantity, quantum, run, sum, worth), përbëj (compose, comprise, constitute, form, make up). (various references)

Arabic 

حسب (opinion, value), ‏كمية (deal, magnitude, measure, number, quantity, size, volume), ‏كميات (quantities), ‏مبلغ (magnitude, size), ‏قيمة (account, price, rate, value, worth), ‏قدر (afford, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), ‏حاصل الجمع (subtotal), ‏ساوى (come, contain, count, crop, equal, equalize), ‏عادل (compensate, counteract, countervail, equal, equitable, even, even-minded, fair, impartial, just, neutralize, noble-descent, offset, reasonable, right, rightful, set off, unbiased), ‏بلغ (accomplish, amount to, attain, break, come, compass, find, reach, run to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сума (count, figure, heaps of, number, power, quantum, sum, tot, total), смисъл (effect, hang, import, intent, intention, matter, message, point, sense, signification, sound, spirit, use), сбор (aggregate, assembly, dues, fee, fete, lump, muster, number, tot, total, troop, whole), равнявам се (come, dress, total), равнозначен съм, размер (ambit, compass, dimension, extent, gauge, limit, mass, measure, percentage, rate, scale, size, volume), количество (deal, measure, number, percentage, quantity, quantum, volume), възлизам (add to, figure out, reach, run out, run up, tot up, work out), означавам (bespeak, betoken, connotate, denote, imply, import, indicate, intend, involve, mean, purport, represent, signify, spell, typify), обща сума (lump sum), значение (account, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight). (various references)

Chinese 

量 (capacity, quantity, to estimate, to measure), 額 (forehead, quantity, quota, volume), 数额, 數量 (quantity), 數目 (number), 數字 (digit, digital, figure, number, numeral). (various references)

Croatian

iznosi (amount to). (various references)

Czech

suma (figure, purse, stim, sum), rozsah (extension, extent, Gage, gauge, magnitude, range, scope, size, span, spread), obnos (sum), množství (bulk, lot, many, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantity, quantum, shoal, volume), míra (degree, extent, Gage, gauge, measure, measurement, pole, proportion, rate, scale), kvantum (quantum), dìlat (act, come to, create, do, make, take, work), èinit (be, come to, do, exert, total), èástka (figure, sum). (various references)

Danish

beløb (sum), tal (number, numbers), sum (sum), antal (number). (various references)

Dutch

bedrag (sum), tal (number), getal (number), aantal (number, number of). (various references)

Esperanto

sumo (sum), sumiĝi, nombro (number). (various references)

Faeroese

upphædd (sum), tal (cipher, digit, figure, number, numeral), samløga (sum). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدارمیزان , مبلغ (Propagandist, Quantity, Sum, Tot), سرزدن (Rise), رسیدن (Accede, Achieve, Aim, Arrive, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Receive, Strand), بالغ شدن (Average). (various references)

Finnish

summa (sum, total). (various references)

French

montant, somme (amount of money), nombre. (various references)

Frisian

tal (number), oantal (number). (various references)

German

Betrag (absolute value, amount dude, modulus, quantum, sum), Summe (aggregate, figure, sum, sum total, summation, total). (various references)

Greek 

ποσό (merit, quantity, sum), ανέρχομαι (accede, amount to, come to, go up, run up to). (various references)

Haitian Creole

kras. (various references)

Hebrew 

מכסה (allocation, lag, norm, quantity, quota, stint, valuation, worth), לסכם (conclude, finalize, precis, summarize, totalize, wind up), כמות (measure, quantity, volume), סכום (sum, total). (various references)

Hungarian

mennyiség (complement, deal, magnitude, quantity, quantum, stack, stint), összeg (aggregate, folding money, money, quantity, remittance, sum, summation, total). (various references)

Indonesian

kebesaran (bigness, greatness, pomp, too big), jumlah (sum, tally, total), cacah (cut up, number), bilangan (calculation, fate, group, numeral), banyaknya (deal, quantity). (various references)

Irish

méid. (various references)

Italian

importo (import, sum), somma (addition, number, sum, summation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

量 (portion, quantity, volume), 高 (amount of money, number, quantity, volume), 程度　 (degree, grade, on the order of, standard), 程度 (degree, grade, of the order of, standard), 価額 (valuation), 多寡 (number, quantity), 分量　 (quantity), 分量 (quantity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たか (amount of money, falcon, hawk, number, polyvalence, quantity, volume), ぶんりょう (quantity), かがく (chemistry, hereditary learning, lower jaw, poetry, science, valuation, versification), りょう (catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume), ていど (degree, grade, imperial domain, low class, low degree, low grade, of the order of, standard). (various references)

Korean 

총계 (Summing, tale, Tales). (various references)

Malay

jumlah (quantity, sum). (various references)

Manx

mooadys (amplitude, artificialness, augmentation, capacity, dimension, extravagance, greatness, huge, increase, largeness, magnitude, size, stature), mooad (quantity). (various references)

Norwegian

nummer (number), beløp (quantity, sum). (various references)

Papiamen

konta (number). (various references)

Pig Latin

amountay.(various references)

Polish

suma (sum), ilość (sum). (various references)

Portuguese

soma (addition, count, entirety, number, quantity, sum, summation, tot, total), quantidade (a good deal, batch, brew, deal, length, measure, number, quantity, quantum, share), quantia (sum), importância (account, archness, bigness, caliber, calibre, concernment, consideration, magnitude, materiality, matter, moment, prestige, salience, seriousness, signification, stress, sum, value). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

quantidade. (various references)

Romanian

valoare (acception, account, assessment, caliber, calibre, consequence, cost, denomination, importance, interest, merit, price, purchase, quality, relief, time value, use, value, virtue, weight, worth), sumã (count, sum, total, tune), sens (acceptance, acceptation, bearing, direction, drift, hang, importance, logic, meaning, purport, reason, sense, signification, traffic, use, value, way), semnificaţie (gut, importance, meaning, noteworthiness, pregnancy, sense, significance, signification, value), seamã (account, importance, reckoning), se ridica (arise, come up, crest, flush, get up, heave, lift, Mount, rise, shoot up, stand, uprise), se cifra (figure), mãsurã (action, arrangement, bar, beat, degree, dimension, extent, length, measure, measurement, out size, proceeding, rate, reservation, rhythm, size, sobriety, step, steps, time), importanţã (account, bearing, concern, consequence, consideration, extent, gravity, greatness, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, pith, prominence, relevance, relevancy, relief, self-importance, significance, store, value, weight), contingent (class, contingent, contribution, draft), cifrã (digit, figure, number, numeral, total), cantitate (heap, quantity, rate, value), câtime (iota, make-weight). (various references)

Russian 

сумма (amount of, amounts, number, sum, tender, tot, total), составлять сумма, составлять (amounted, amounting, be, come, compose, constitute, draw up, form, make, reach, totalled, totalling), количество (amt amount, forkful, number, quantities, quantity, quantum), итог (result, resume, sum, summaries, summation, total), доходить до (come at, get to, touch []). (various references)

Scottish

uiread (as much). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svota (sum), suma (sum), količina (batch, content, lot, quantity), iznositi (number, take out, total, wear out), iznos (matter, sum). (various references)

Spanish

importe (cost, sum), cantidad (chunk, deal, load, lot, quantity, raft, sum, total, volume), suma (addition, sum, summation, total), número (act, circulation, copy, figure, issue, number, numeral, prime, size, turn), monto, monta (covering, mating, service, serving, tupping). (various references)

Swahili

kiasi (just the right amount, rate). (various references)

Swedish

summa (aggragate, aggregate, figure, sum, total), belopp (figure, sum), antal (counts, frequency, head, number, strength). (various references)

Turkish

anlamına gelmek (add up, add up to, be, connote, imply, infer, mean, purport, read, signify, spell, stand for), tutar (aggregate, quanta, quantum, sum, total, volume), toplama ulaşmak, toplam (aggregate, muster, sum, summation, tot, total, whole), sonuca varmak (decide, make inferences, reason), miktar (deal, measure, number, portion, proportion, quanta, quantitative, quantity, quantum, sum, supply), kadar (as, as far as, as much as, by, inasmuch as, pending, so, so long as, till, until, up to), ifade etmek (be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), eşit olmak (be equal, be equivalent to, be on a par with, be tantamount to, contain, equate, size up, work out at), değer (costliness, currency, dearness, merit, preciousness, price, rate, valuation, value, worth, worthiness, worthwhile, worthy, worthy of), önem (accent, account, consequence, consideration, emphasis, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, prominence, regard, significance, significancy, stature, strength, stress, substantiality, value, weight). (various references)

Turkmen 

san (number, score), pylanзa, mukdar (number, quantity). (various references)

Ukrainian

становити (be, number), складати (accumulate, aggregate, bolt, compose, congregate, make, make up, number, redact, tot, wage), кількість (number, numerosity, quantity), вага (authority, avoirdupois, burden, heft, load, ponderosity, weight), важливість (account, concern, consequence, earnest, gravity, import, importance, magnitude, moment, notability, pregnancy, seriousness, significance, significancy), значимість, підсумок (brief, output, pouch, result, resume, tally, whole), досягати (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, compass, gain ground, measure up, obtain, reach). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tầm quan trọng, số nhiều tổng số thực chất, số lượng (quantity), giá trị thực, ý nghĩa (drift, meaning). (various references)

Welsh

swm (bulk, sum), cyrraedd (accomplish, achieve, arrive at, attain, get, reach), codi (accrue, arise, erect, get up, lift, raise, rise). (various references)

Zulu

inamba (number). (various references)

ad-, additamenta, aliquanto, aliquantum, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus, quanta, quantae, quantam, quantas, quanti, quantis, quantitatem, quanto, quantocumque, quantoque, quantum, quantus. (various references)