status quo

See also: Status quo

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statu) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”). From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin in statu quō ante bellum erat (“the way it was before the war”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˌstætəs ˈkwoʊ/

• Audio (CA):

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• IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwoʊ/

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 in quo
• status quo ante

Translations

the state of things

• Arabic: وَضْع رَاهِن m (waḍʕ rāhin)
• Armenian: ստատուս քվո (hy) (status kʻvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現狀／现状 (zh) (xiànzhuàng), 现状 (zh) (xiànzhuàng)

• Danish: status quo c
• Dutch: status quo (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭstato
• Finnish: status quo (fi), vallitseva tila, nykyinen tilanne
• French: statuquo (fr) m, statu quo (fr) m
• German: Status quo (de) m, Ausgangslage f, Ausgangszustand m
• Greek: καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós), στάτους κβο (el) n (státous kvo)
• Ido: nuna stando
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: status quo (it) m
• Japanese: 現状 (ja) (げんじょう, genjō)
• Khmer: ស្ថានភាពនៅដដែល (stʰaan pʰiep nɨv dɑdael)
• Persian: وضع موجود (vaz'-e moujud), وضع فعلی (vaz'-e fe'li)
• Portuguese: status quo (pt) m, statu quo (pt) m
• Romanian: statuquo n
• Russian: ста́тус-кво (ru) m (státus-kvo)
• Spanish: estado del asunto m, statu quo (es)
• Tagalog: kairalan
• Turkish: statüko (tr)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstaːtʏs ˈkʋoː/

• Audio:

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Noun

status quo m (plural status quo's)

1. status quo

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• estatu quo, estatus quo, statu quo

Noun

status quo m (invariable)

1. status quo (the existing state of things)