Etymology Dictionary

UBIQUITY,  omnipresence.  (F.,—L.)   In Becon's Works, iii. 450, 524 (Parker Soc.); and in Cotgrave.—F. ubiquité, 'an ubiquity;' Cot.   It answers to Lat. ubiquitatem, acc. of ubiquitas, a coined word, not in White's Dict.; coined to signify 'a being everywhere,' i.e. omnipresence.—Lat. ubique, wherever, also, everywhere.—Lat. ubi, where; with suffix -que, answering to Gk. τέ, and allied to Lat. quis, Gk. τίς, and E. who.   β. Ubi is short for cubi*, appearing in ali-cubi, anywhere, ne-cubi, nowhere; and cubi* certainly stands for quo-bi*, where -bi is a sufix as in i-bi, there, due to an old case-ending.  It is remarkable that both u-bi (= quo-bi) and the suffix -que are from the same Aryan base KA.  See Who.  Der. ubiquit-ous, -ous-ly.