qualis
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]qualis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“interrogative, relative stem”) and maybe *h₂el- (“to grow”) (cf. the sense of indolēs, from this root). Cognate with Ancient Greek πηλίκος (pēlíkos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷaː.lis/, [ˈkʷäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.lis/, [ˈkwäːlis]
Determiner
[edit]quālis
- (interrogative) of what kind, sort, description, nature; what kind of
- tālis ... quālis ― just like
- (relative) of such kind as, one such as, just as, as, like
- (technical, philosophy) of a particular kind
- c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 117.27.6:
- Prius aliquid esse dēbet, deinde quāle esse.
- Something first needs to be, and then to be of a particular kind.
- Prius aliquid esse dēbet, deinde quāle esse.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | quālis | quāle | quālēs | quālia | |
genitive | quālis | quālium | |||
dative | quālī | quālibus | |||
accusative | quālem | quāle | quālēs quālīs |
quālia | |
ablative | quālī | quālibus | |||
vocative | quālis | quāle | quālēs | quālia |
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[edit]References
[edit]- “qualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “qualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- qualis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- qualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
- (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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