utrum

utrum
   utrum adv.    [uter].    I. Introducing a direct question, and expressed in English only by the mark of interrogation: utrum pro me an pro me et pro te?: utrum hostem an vos an fortunam utriusque populi ignoratis? L.—Strengthened by ne (attached to an emphatic word; or poet. to utrum): Utrum studione in sibi habet an laudi putat Fore? T.: utrum igitur tandem perspicuisne dubia aperiuntur an dubiis perspicua tolluntur?: Utrumne iussi persequemur otium . . . An hunc laborem, etc., H.—Without an expressed alternative: utrum enim est in clarissimis civibus is, quem iudicatum hic duxit Hermippus?—    II. Introducing an indirect question, whether : Utrum stultitiā facere ego hunc an malitiā Dicam, incertus sum, T.: utrum inpudentior hic . . . an crudelior illa, difficile dictu est: est quaerendumque utrum una species sit earum anne plures: iam dudum ego erro, qui quaeram, utrum emeris necne, whether . . . or not : utrum proelium committi ex usu esset necne, Cs.: cum interrogaretur, utrum pluris patrem matremne faceret? matrem inquit, whether . . . or .—Strengthened by ne (attached to an emphatic word; or poet. to utrum): (rogo) utrum praedicemne an taceam? T.: videamus, utrum ea fortuitane sint an eo statu, quo, etc.: utrum admonitus an temptatus an sine duce ullo pervenerit . . . nescio: Nec quidquam differre utrumne in pulvere . . . ludas opus, an meretricis amore Sollicitus plores, H.—Without an expressed alternative: an hoc dicere audebis, utrum de te aratores bene existiment, ad rem id non pertinere?
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ADV
whether; (introducing an indirect question)

utrum...an -- whether...or


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