quoad

quoad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quoad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwoʊæd/

Preposition

quoad

1. (archaic) With respect to.
   • 1884, Horace Smith, A treatise on the law of negligence:

     It seems to have been rather on this ground that quoad Hughes, who was a volunteer, the defendant had not been guilty of any negligence at all […]

Related terms

• quoad hoc
• quoad omnia
• quoad sacra

Anagrams

• aquod

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Latin

Etymology

From quod + ad (i.e. "ad quod"). See also quam, quandō, usque.

Adverb

quoad (not comparable)

1. as far as

   Synonym: quousque

2. as long as
3. until
4. while

Preposition

quoad (+ accusative)

1. with respect to

References

• “quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quoad 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)
• quoad in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
    
• Bruno Meinecke, Ph.D. (1960) Third Year Latin. (Allyn and Bacon, Inc.)