qualis

Latin

Etymology

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷaː.lis/, [ˈkʷaː.lɪs]

Adjective

quālis (neuter quāle); third declension

  1. what (kind, condition, etc.)
  2. (in similes) such... as, such as, as

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative quālis quāle quālēs quālia
Genitive quālis quālis quālium quālium
Dative quālī quālī quālibus quālibus
Accusative quālem quāle quālēs, quālīs quālia
Ablative quālī quālī quālibus quālibus
Vocative quālis quāle quālēs quālia

Pronoun

qualis

  1. (interrogative) of what kind

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References
  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • qualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
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