qua

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adverb 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Translations 2 Classical Nahuatl 2.1 Verb 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Adverb 4 Ido 4.1 Pronoun 4.2 Usage notes 5 Italian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Adverb 5.2.1 See also 6 Latin 6.1 Adverb 7 Min Nan 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Etymology 7.3 Suffix 7.3.1 Usage notes 7.3.2 See also 8 Vietnamese 8.1 Preposition 8.2 Adjective 8.3 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

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

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• IPA: /kwɑː/, /kweɪ/

  Rhymes: -eɪ

[edit] Adverb

qua (not comparable)

1. In the capacity of.

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• 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.

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[edit] Classical Nahuatl

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qua

1. Alternative spelling of cua.

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[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Adverb

qua

1. qua

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[edit] Ido

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qua (plural qui)

1. who (subject)

[edit] Usage notes

To ask for an object, use quan instead.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kwa/

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qua

1. here (relatively close to the speaker)

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• là
• li
• qui

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[edit] Latin

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qua

1. as; in the capacity or character of
2. in so far as

   ens qua ens ("being as being")

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ kuã˥˥ ]

[edit] Etymology

The suffix has been used since around the 17th and 18th century. It is most likely an early attempt at Romanizing the Min Nan for 官 (POJ: koaⁿ) official. 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.

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qua (poj koaⁿ, traditional and simplified 官)

1. official

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

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• (Mandarin) 官 (guān)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Preposition

qua

1. through, across, by

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qua

1. last

[edit] Verb

qua

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