qua

From Latin qua (“in the capacity of”).

• IPA^(key): /kwɑː/, /kweɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

qua

1. as; in the capacity of
   • 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

     As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.

   • 1962: Norman Malcolm; Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39^{1}; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68^{2} (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))

     ^{1} For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other.

     ^{2} I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.

   • 2003: Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, page 458 (Penguin, 2004)

     It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.

   • 2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.

     "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."

   • 2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.

     Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.

Imitative.

qua

1. The cawing sound of a crow.
   • 1909, The Country Gentleman (volume 74, page 266)

     Crows have a language of their own in a wild state that any observant person can learn. […] Then he would straighten his head back and, with the most comical bowing and wagging, say: "Qua qua qua, qua qua qua" for perhaps a minute.

   • 2012, Jaman Tree, I Crow River

     Qua... qua... qua... out of the blue I hear the crows cawing with great fanfare as they announce to the world at large that they are here by my side and intend to probe into my being.

• QAU, UAQ

qua

1. Alternative spelling of cua

• IPA^(key): /kvaː/, [kʰvæːˀ]
• Rhymes: -aː

qua

1. as, qua (in the capacity of)
2. (as a preposition) by virtue of (because of)

• Rhymes: -aː

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qua

1. regarding, concerning, in terms of

   Qua gezondheid ben ik helemaal in orde.

   In terms of health, I'm perfectly fine.

• wat ... betreft

Borrowed from French qui, que, Italian che, Spanish que, ultimately from Latin quī / quid.

• IPA^(key): /kwa/

qua (plural qui)

1. (relative pronoun) which

   Esis tre jentila homo qua helpis ni. ― It was a nice man who helped us.

2. (interrogative pronoun) who

   Qua esas ita kerlo? ― Who is that guy?

   (direct question)

   Me ne konocas qua ita esas. ― I don't know who that is.

   (indirect question)

qua

1. (interrogative determiner) what

   Qua kamizo vu portos? ― What shirt are you going to wear?

• quo (“what (thing)”)
• qui (“who (plural)”)
• pro quo (“why”)

• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quala (“what kind of”)
  • quale (“how”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

• quà (misspelling)

From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu hac, from Latin eccum + hac.

• IPA^(key): /kwa/

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• Rhymes: -a

qua

1. here

   Synonym: qui

For differences between qui / qua, see notes at qui.

• quassù
• quaggiù

• là, lì

Adverb declined from quī.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa/

quā (not comparable)

1. On which side, at or in which place, in what direction, where, by what way (qua...ea...)
2. as; in the capacity or character of
3. In so far as

   ens qua ens ("being as being")

4. In what way, how, by what method; to what degree or extent

Inflection of quī (“who, which”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaː/

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quī

Inflection of quis (“who?, what?”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaː/

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quis

Inflection of quis (“anyone, something, anyone, anything”).

qua

1. nominative feminine singular of quis
2. nominative neuter plural of quis
3. accusative neuter plural of quis

• 'qua' is commonly used for 'quae' in the above forms of the indefinite variant of the pronoun 'quis'.

• qua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• qua in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• qua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) how old are you: qua aetate es?
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    
  • (ambiguous) to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) the question at issue: res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
    
• Allen, Joseph Henry; Greenough, James B. (1903) Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, § 149

The suffix has been used since around the 17th and 18th century. Since "hong" (行) merchants were technically officials of the lowest (9th) rank, the suffix qua was added to their names in honour of their positions in the Qing government.

• IPA^(key): [kuã˥˥]

qua (POJ koaⁿ, traditional and simplified 官)

1. Irregular romanization of of koaⁿ (“official”)

• Formerly added to names of hong merchants (i.e. "Powqua," "Chinqua").

qua

1. here

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kwaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [waː˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 過 (“pass”). Doublet of quá.

qua

1. through, across, by

qua

1. last

qua (戈)

1. (intransitive) To be gone.
2. (intransitive) To cross.

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 我.

qua

1. (archaic, by males or Southern Vietnam) I; me

   Hôm qua qua bảo qua qua mà qua không qua. Hôm nay qua không bảo qua qua mà qua lại qua.

   Yesterday ah said ah'd cuhm over but ah ain't cuhm. Today ah ain't say ah'd cuhm over but ah came.

• băng qua
• đi qua

• An Chi (17 March 2019). "Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: Nguồn gốc của đại từ QUA". Thanh Niên.