status quo

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Etymology

From Latin status (“state”); (NB the ablative "statu" is the correct form) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”). From the Latin in statu quō ante bellum erat (“the way it was before the war”)

Noun

status quo (plural status quos)

1. The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

Related terms

• status quo ante

Translations

the state of things

Arabic: وضع راهن (ar) (waD-H raahin) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 現狀 (zh), 现状 (zh) (xiànzhuàng) Finnish: status quo (fi), vallitseva (fi) tila (fi), nykyinen (fi) tilanne (fi) French: statuquo (fr) m., statu quo (fr) m.

German: Status quo (de) m. Japanese: 現状 (ja) (げんじょう, genjō) Romanian: statuquo (ro) n. Russian: статус-кво (ru) (státus-kvo) m. Spanish: estado del asunto (es) m.