qualis

English

Noun

qualis

1. plural of quali

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷaː.lis/, [ˈkʷäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.lis/, [ˈkwäːlis]

Determiner

quālis

1. (interrogative) of what kind, sort, description, nature; what kind of

   tālis ... quālis ― just like

2. (relative) of such kind as, one such as, just as, as, like
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.69:

     [...] quālis coniectā cerva sagittā, [...].

     [...] like a deer, wounded by an arrow [...].
     (Introduces a famous simile comparing Dido to a wounded deer; like the deer, she too will perish.)

3. (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.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

Coordinate terms

• tālis

Derived terms

• quālificō
• quālitās
• quāliter

 

Related terms

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	free choice	universal	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quīvis, quīlibet	quisque	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	utervīs, uterlibet	uterque		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubivīs, ubilibet	ubīque	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	°undelibet	undique			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	quōvīs, quōlibet		quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāvīs, quālibet	quāque		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	quōmodolibet	utīque	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōlibet	quandōque	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam	quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus	quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis	quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot	quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus	quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns	quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

Descendants

• Aromanian: cari, care, cai
• Dalmatian: cal
• English: quale
• Franco-Provençal: quâl
• French: quel
• Friulian: cuâl
• Galician: cal
• Italian: quale
• Ladin: chel
• Occitan: qual
• Portuguese: qual
• Romanian: care
• Sicilian: quali
• Spanish: cual
• Venetan: quało

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 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti