FromOld Frenchquel, fromLatinquālis, quālem.
quei (feminine singularqueiorquâle,masculine pluralqueis,feminine pluralqueisorquâles)
- which
Quei janre de livre veus-tu aichetai ?- Which kind of book do you want to buy?
- (exclamative)what
Quei caitaistrôphe !- What a catastrophe!
quei (feminine singularqueiorquâle,masculine pluralqueis,feminine pluralqueisorquâles)
- (rare)what
Quei ât son nom ?- What is his name?
quei m pl
- plural ofquello
- Before consonants except impures,gn,pn,ps,x,y,z; beforedei,quegli si used instead.
quei m sg
- Old Italian form ofquegli
1300s–1310s,Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, inInferno [Hell], lines103-105; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi, editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence:publ.Le Lettere,1994:Beatrice, loda di Dio vera,
chè non soccorriquei che t'amò tanto,
ch'uscì per te della volgare schiera ?- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Used before consonants, and especially before relativeche.
FromProto-Italic*kʷoi, fromProto-Indo-European*kʷos,*kʷís.
quei m(Old Latin)
- (interrogative)who,what,that,which
quei
- (relative)who,what,that,which
