qualitas

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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

  1. quality, property

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quālitās quālitātēs
genitive quālitātis quālitātum
dative quālitātī quālitātibus
accusative quālitātem quālitātēs
ablative quālitāte quālitātibus
vocative quālitās quālitātēs

Descendants

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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