determiner
quālis
quālis
Classical[ˈkʷaː.lɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkʷaː.lis]
№ 263 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- interrogativeof what kind, sort, description, nature; what kind of
tālis ... quālis
just like - relativeof such kind as, one such as, just as, as, like
[...] quālis coniectā cerva sagittā, [...].
… like a deer, wounded by an arrow …. (Introduces a famous simile comparing Dido to a wounded deer; like the deer, she too will perish.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.69 - of a particular kind
Prius aliquid esse dēbet, deinde quāle esse.
Something first needs to be, and then to be of a particular kind.c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 117.27.6
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quālis | quālis | quāle |
| genitive | quālis | quālis | quālis |
| dative | quālī | quālī | quālī |
| accusative | quālem | quālem | quāle |
| ablative | quālī | quālī | quālī |
| vocative | quālis | quālis | quāle |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quālēs | quālēs | quālia |
| genitive | quālium | quālium | quālium |
| dative | quālibus | quālibus | quālibus |
| accusative | quālīs quālēs | quālīs quālēs | quālia |
| ablative | quālibus | quālibus | quālibus |
| vocative | quālēs | quālēs | quālia |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
- to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion.
quālis, e, pron. adj. quis; kindr. with Gr. πη-λίκος; Goth. huc-leik; Germ. welcher,
I. how constituted, of what sort, kind, or nature, what kind of a (class.).
I. Interrog.: qualine amico mea commendavi bona? Call. Probo, et fideli, et fido, Plaut. Trin. 4, 4, 3:
qualis oratoris et quanti hominis in dicendo putas esse historiam scribere? Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51: quali fide, quali pietate existimatis eos esse, qui, etc., Cic. Font. 10, 21: qualis est istorum oratio? what kind of a speech is that? id. Ac. 2, 14, 44 — In exclamations: hei mihi, qualis erat! Verg. A. 2, 274; Enn. ap. Serv. ad loc. (Ann. v. 7 Vahl.): O Romule, Romule, dic, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.).— In indirect questions: nam cogitato, qualem haberes gratiam (si, etc.), Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 54: ego te qualis sis scio, id. Aul. 2, 2, 40; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 20: ipsius rei natura qualis et quanta sit quaerimus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56: qualis esset natura montis, cognoscere, Caes. B. G. 1, 21: doce me quales sint corpore, what sort of a body they have, Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 65.— II. Rel., with or without the correlative talis, so constituted, of such a sort, kind, or nature, such as, as:
ut qualem te jam antea populo Romano, praebuisti, talem te et nobis impertias, Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11: ut res non tales, quales ante habitae sint, habendae videantur, id. Inv. 2, 58, 176; id. Off. 2, 13, 44: in hoc bello, quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit, the like of which, id. Cat. 3, 10, 25; id. Phil. 2, 7, 17: equitum acies, qualis quae esse instructissima potest, etc., Liv. 8, 39: tale tuum carmen nobis, quale, etc., Verg. E. 5, 47: bis sex ... qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus, id. A. 12, 899.— B. Esp., in quotations and citations, as, as for instance, as for example:
aperta et clara (somnia), quale est de illo, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 66, 135: cum proposito dissimili vel contrario ratio subjungitur: quale est Demosthenis: non enim, etc., Quint. 5, 14, 4; so id. 1, 5, 65 Zumpt N. cr.; 3, 6, 41; 3, 11, 6 et saep. al.—2. Poet. for the adv. qualiter, as, just as:
qualis populea moerens philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur fetus, Verg. G. 4, 511; id. A. 3, 679; 4, 143: quale caelum Subrubet, Ov. Am. 2, 5, 35; id. M. 3, 682.— 3. Repeated: qualis qualis (post-class. for qualiscumque), of what quality soever, whatsoever:
quali quali obligatione interpositā, Dig. 20, 5, 12.—III. Indef.: quale, having some quality or other:
et ita effici quae appellant qualia, Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 28: prius aliquid esse debet, deinde quale esse, Sen. Ep. 117, 28.— Adv.: quā-lĭter. A. In what way or manner, how:
refert, villa qualiter aedificetur, Col. 1, 4, 6; Mart. 5, 7, 1.— Qualiter qualiter, in what manner soever, for qualitercumque (postclass.), Dig. 4, 4, 7.— B. Just as, as:
lacri mae fluxere per ora, Qualiter abjectā de nive manat aquā, Ov. Am. 1, 7, 57; Cels. praef. p. 6; Val. Fl. 5, 305; Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193.— C. Repeated:
qualiter qualiter, in whatever manner, however, Dig. 4, 4, 7 pr.; 9, 2, 7, § 1; 26, 7, 5, § 10.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quālis e, pronom adj.
2 CA-.—
I. I. Interrog, how constituted, of what sort, of what nature, what kind of a : qualis oratoris putas esse historiam scribere?: qualis est istorum oratio? what kind of a speech is that? —In indirect questions: metuo qualem tu me esse hominem existumas: qualis esset natura montis, cognoscere, Cs.: doce me quales sint corpore, what sort of a body they have . —In exclamations: Hei mihi, qualis erat! what a man! V.: dic, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. C.—
II. II. Relat., so constituted, of such a kind, such as, as (often correl . with talis ): ut qualem te iam antea populo R. praebuisti, talem te et nobis impertias: in hoc bello, quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit, the like of which : equitum acies qualis quae instructissima potest, L.: bis sex . . . Qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus, V.: Cui mater sese tulit obvia, qualis equos fatigat Harpalyce, like Harpalyce, when she wearies , etc., V.—In quotations and citations, as, as for instance, as for example : aperta et clara (somnia), quale est de illo, etc.— Adverb., as, just as : Qualis maerens philomela queritur fetūs, V.: falcata cauda est, Qualia sinuantur cornua lunae, O.— Indef., as subst n., things endowed with qualities : et illa effici quae appellant qualia.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *kʷālis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-li-s, from a feminine or collective form of *kʷo- (interrogative, relative stem) (compare quam) plus an l-suffix such as that found in *-lós, or from *kʷ- + *h₂el- (“to grow”) (compare the suffix -ālis, as well as the sense of indolēs, from this root). Cognate with Ancient Greek πηλίκος (pēlíkos).
Descendants
- Englishquale
- Frenchquel
- Italianquale
- Occitanqual
- Portuguesequal
- Romaniancare
- Spanishcual
- Aromaniancari
- Aromaniancare
- Aromaniancai