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Quidam: n. Somebody; one unknown...
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I keep coming up with it as Latin...
From the OED:
Rare; L., f: qui;
From Bedell (1624):
Who were these quidams that laid hands on Scory?
Spenser (1579): So many vnworthy quidams, which catch at the garlond which to you alone is dewe. (eccentric spellings his for a change).
And Mountagu (1641): Some individuum vagum, a certaine quidam in the Clouds. (again, spelling his and not me).
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