qualitas

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποιότης (poiótēs), from quālis +‎ -tās. See also quantitās.

Noun

quālitās f (genitive quālitātis); third declension

1. quality, property

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quālitās	quālitātēs
Genitive	quālitātis	quālitātum
Dative	quālitātī	quālitātibus
Accusative	quālitātem	quālitātēs
Ablative	quālitāte	quālitātibus
Vocative	quālitās	quālitātēs

Descendants

• Asturian: cualidá
• Catalan: qualitat
• Dutch: kwaliteit
• English: quality
• Franco-Provençal: qualità
• French: qualité
  • Haitian Creole: kalite
  • → Romanian: calitate
  • → Turkish: kalite
• Galician: calidade
• Irish: cáil
• Italian: qualità
• Norman: qualitaï (Guernsey)
• Occitan: qualitat
• Portuguese: qualidade
• Old Spanish: qualidat
  • Spanish: calidad, cualidad

References

• “qualitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “qualitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• qualitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.