qualis

1. plural ofquali

Derived fromProto-Indo-European*kʷo-(“interrogative, relative stem”) and maybe*h₂el-(“to grow”) (cf. the sense ofindolēs, from this root). Cognate withAncient Greekπηλίκος(pēlíkos).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.lis]

quālis

1. (interrogative) ofwhatkind,sort,description,nature;what kind of

   tālis ...quālis ―just like

2. (relative) ofsuchkind as, onesuch as,justas,as,like
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.69:

     [...]quālis coniectā cerva sagittā, [...].

     [...]like a deer, wounded by an arrow [...].
     (Introduces a famous simile comparing Dido to a wounded deer; like the deer, she too will perish.)

3. (technical, philosophy) of aparticular kind
   • c. 65CE,Seneca the Younger,Epistulae morales ad Lucilium117.27.6:

     Prius aliquid esse dēbet, deindequāle esse.

     Something first needs to be, and then to beof a particular kind.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• tālis

• “qualis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “qualis”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "qualis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “qualis”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion:constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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