Jul 22, 2016 · Qua (not to be confused with the ablative feminine form of qui) is a Latin adverb meaning "where; by which route". Read it as "as" when you read it. Use it in scholarly or legal writing to refer …

Jan 16, 2011 · Qua can usually be read as the word "as". It is an occasionally useful (and rarely used) link-word in English. I was just reading about qua in Fowler's (incl. the 3rd ed by Burchfield) a couple …

Apr 15, 2024 · It's hard to find a fundamental difference in how "X qua X" and "X simpliciter" are used. There might be differences in connotation though, with qua suggesting something has multiple …

Closed 4 years ago. Some Latinisms are usually italicized in English whereas some Latin loanwords are not, even in the same text. However, I cannot find any clear pattern. Are there clear rules or …

Jul 2, 2018 · The definition still says, of high quality. "this was a fine piece of filmmaking" · "fine wines" But too many times, we see people using the word to describe a so-so state, li...

Aug 25, 2015 · Or, as someone else in this forum quoted, Bobby was the first pig I had met qua pig, not qua pork. Finally, to truly come full circle, per se has seemed to slip from its original meaning of in …

Jun 21, 2019 · I have a list of words that I can sort by name. The list might also contain duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates etc. The list can also be sorted in such a way that such repetitions show up …

Aug 27, 2019 · Because this answer was deemed too short by a reviewer I'll mention the obvious reasons to give this answer: Like cornerstone, foundation denotes a base on which another thing …

In English "qu" is always used as a digraph. The letters "que" represent the sound [k] at the ending of many words: unique, technique, antique, physique, clique, grotesque. However, the combinat...

Jan 6, 2025 · There is a difference between a word being gross and its standing for something gross. These words all stand for something that most people regard as gross, but none of them is gross qua …