qualitas

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Cicero as a translation of Ancient Greek ποιότης (poiótēs), from quālis +‎ -tās. See also quantitās.

Noun

quālitās f (genitive quālitātis); third declension

quality, property

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quālitās	quālitātēs
Genitive	quālitātis	quālitātum
Dative	quālitātī	quālitātibus
Accusative	quālitātem	quālitātēs
Ablative	quālitāte	quālitātibus
Vocative	quālitās	quālitātēs

Descendants

Dutch: kwaliteit
English: quality
French: qualité

Irish: cáil
Italian: qualità
Norman: qualitaï (Guernsey)

Portuguese: qualidade
Romanian: calitate
Spanish: calidad, cualidad

References

qualitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
qualitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
qualitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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