qualitas

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Cicero as a translation 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

• Dutch: kwaliteit
• English: quality
• French: qualité

• Irish: cáil
• Italian: qualità
• Norman: qualitaï (Guernsey)

• Portuguese: qualidade
• Romanian: calitate
• 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.