qua
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin qua (“‘in the capacity of’”).
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qua (not comparable)
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- 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.
- 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.
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in the capacity of
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[edit] Classical Nahuatl
[edit] Verb
qua
- Alternative spelling of cua.
[edit] Dutch
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qua
- regarding, qua
- Jaarlijkse bedrijfsbijeenkomst, voorzitter van de raad van bestuur: "Qua geld zitten we goed, het is enkel de vraag of we verder contracten gaan blijven binnenhalen zoals dit afgelopen jaar het geval was."
- AGM, chairman of the board: "Money-wise we are fine, what remains to be seen though is whether we will keep winning new contracts at the present rate."
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[edit] Pronoun
qua (plural qui)
- who (subject)
[edit] Usage notes
To ask for an object, use quan instead.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /kwa/
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qua
- here (relatively close to the speaker)
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[edit] Latin
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qua
- as; in the capacity or character of
- in so far as
- ens qua ens ("being as being")
[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)
[edit] Usage notes
- Formerly added to names of hong merchants (i.e. "Powqua," "Chinqua").
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qua
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qua
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qua
