qualitas
Latin
Etymology
Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποιότης (poiótēs), from quālis + -tās. See also quantitās.
Noun
quālitās f (genitive quālitātis); third declension
- quality, property
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quālitās | quālitātēs |
| Genitive | quālitātis | quālitātum |
| Dative | quālitātī | quālitātibus |
| Accusative | quālitātem | quālitātēs |
| Ablative | quālitāte | quālitātibus |
| Vocative | quālitās | quālitātēs |
Descendants
- Asturian: cualidá
- Catalan: qualitat
- Dutch: kwaliteit
- English: quality
- Franco-Provençal: qualità
- French: qualité
- → Romanian: calitate
- → Turkish: kalite
- Galician: calidade
- Irish: cáil
- Italian: qualità
- Norman: qualitaï (Guernsey)
- Occitan: qualitat
- Portuguese: qualidade
- Old Spanish: qualidat
- 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