Seequoth.
quo
- (transitive, obsolete)quoth
quo (pluralquos)
- Paired withquid, in reference to the phrasequid pro quo(“this for that”): something given in exchange for something else.
1886 May 19,Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. 1) Bill[H.L.]; the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. 2) Bill[H.L.]; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix, London: […] Henry Hansard and Son, page208:[…]; but what is thequo for which they ought to give thequid? you say they ought to give aquid pro quo; what is thequo?[…]; thequo there was the taking up of the streets?[…]; did not they give you a pretty handsomequid for thequo there?
1993, Richard Edwards,Rights at Work: Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era,Brookings Institution,→ISBN, page29:Quid pro quo benefits are by nature differentially available to individuals, depending upon thequo—upon what promise has been made or performance provided.
2000, Andrew Stark,Conflict of Interest in American Public Life,→ISBN, pages163–164:Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particularquo that is meant to recompense thequid. If an erstwhile case of criminal bribery bleeds into a lesser violation of the prophylactic gift rules as an identifable[sic]quo moves beyond view, then in similar fashion thequid pro quos we popularly debate descend into tokens of affection and regard as thequos begin to fluctuate wildly in value. If there exists any kind of inequity betweenquid andquo, then—on this line of argument—the expansive category of “friendship” emerges to account for it, siphoning the situation away from the class of objectionablequid pro quo. The claim officials here make—that for aquid to have aquo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.
2009, George G. Brenkert, Tom L. Beaucham, editors,The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics,Oxford University Press, page504:Corruption, the Court declared inBuckley v. Valeo, involves a quid pro quo: an officeholder doing something in office in return for money or some other favor provided by another individual or entity (for our purposes, a corporation). The problem, however, is that in principle there can be a quid—the money or favor offered by the business to the official—and aquo—the action taken by the official that benefits the business—without any clear evidence of a pro, that is, that the two are connected.[…]The “pro,” the connection between quid andquo, might take place only inside the minds of the official and businessperson concerned.[…]What this means is that we cannot use thequo itself as indirect evidence for the pro.
2020,John Yoo,Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books,St. Martin’s Publishing Group,→ISBN:It is hard to pull off a quid pro quo if the holder of thequo doesn’t know about the quid.
Fromqua +-o.
quo (pluralqui)
- (relative pronoun)which
- Esis tre bona kulteloquo me tranchis per. ―It was really good knifewhich I cut with.
- (interrogative pronoun)what
- Quo eventis? ―What (thing) happened?(direct question)
- Ka tu povas helpar me decidarquo metar? ―Can you help me to decidewhat to wear?(indirect question)
Adverb declined fromquī. See also the same meanings inubī.
quō (notcomparable)
- (interrogative)whither,whereto,where
- exquo ―since when
Quō vādis, Domine?- Where are you going, Lord?
- (relative / interrogative) To or inwhich place,whither,where
- Towhat end, forwhat purpose,wherefore,why
- To the endthat, in order that, so that, that
Multum currit,quō validior fīat.- He runs a lotto become healthier.
- Quo expeditiore re frumentaria uteretur ―in order that he might make use of the looser supplies of provisions (Caesar,de Bello Gallico, VII, 11)
(This replacesut when there is a comparative in the subordinate clause of purpose.)
Inflection ofquī(“who, which”).
quō
- ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofquī
quō
- ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofquī
Inflection ofquis(“who?, what?”).
quō
- ablativemasculine/feminine/neutersingular ofquis
- “quo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “quo”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) where are you going:quo tendis?
- (ambiguous) since the time that, since (at the beginning of a sentence):ex quo tempore or simplyex quo
- (ambiguous) Pericles, the greatest man of his day:Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
- (ambiguous) how are you getting on:quo loco res tuae sunt?
- (ambiguous) from this point of view; similarly:quo in genere
- (ambiguous) by some chance or other:nescio quo casu (with Indic.)
- (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion:constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
- (ambiguous) to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul:argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
- (ambiguous) it follows from this that..:sequitur (notex quo seq.)ut
- (ambiguous) it follows from this that..:ex quo, unde, hinc efficitur ut
- (ambiguous) the point at issue:id, de quo agitur orid quod cadit in controversiam
- (ambiguous) to set some one a theme for discussion:ponere alicui, de quo disputet
- (ambiguous) from this it appears, is apparent:ex quo intellegitur orintellegi potest, debet
- (ambiguous) from this it appears, is apparent:ex quo perspicuum est
quo
- alternative form ofwho(“who”,nominative)
quo
- alternative form ofco
1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Quo hea;Quo shoo;Quo Ich.- Saith he;Says she;Say I.
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page63
