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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quoad.
Pronunciation
Preposition
quoad
- (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 […]
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From quod + ad (i.e. "ad quod"). See also quam, quandō, usque.
Adverb
quoad (not comparable)
- as far as
- Synonym: quousque
- as long as
- until
- while
Preposition
quoad (+ accusative)
- 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.)