quoad
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwoʊ.æd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Preposition
quoad
- (archaic) With respect to.
- 1884, Horace Smith, A treatise on the law of negligence:
- It seems to have been rather on this ground that quoad Hughes, who was a volunteer, the defendant had not been guilty of any negligence at all […]
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Latin
Etymology
From quod + ad (i.e. "ad quod"). See also quam, quandō, usque.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷo.ad]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷɔː.ad̪]
Adverb
- as far as
- Synonym: quousque
- as long as
- until
- while
- (rare, as a question) how long, when
- 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Phormio 1.2.96-97:
- Quid? senem
Quoad exspectatis vestrum?- What? When do you expect your old man?
- Quid? senem
Preposition
quoad (+ accusative)
References
- “quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "quoad", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quoad in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
- as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
- Bruno Meinecke, Ph.D. (1960) Third Year Latin. (Allyn and Bacon, Inc.)