qualiter Latin · revision 36793

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Tibullus|origins=la quālis}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quāliter''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quālis|-ter|t1=of what kind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Tibullus.^(Köbler 2010) Ovid uses it in a comparison: ''lacrimae flūxēre per ōra, quāliter abiectā dē nive mānat aqua'', “tears flowed down the face, as water trickles from snow thrown aside”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 1st century AD it is used as a relative “as, just as”, often to introduce a simile, and as an interrogative or exclamatory “how”, in Columella, Pliny the Elder, Martial and Statius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The jurists of the Digest repeat it as ''quāliter quāliter'', “in whatever way”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it also served as a conjunction, “that”, “so that” and “in order that”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it to introduce a comparison.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it in direct questions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it in exclamations.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(interrogative)'' In what manner? how?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(exclamatory)'' In how fine a way!^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(relative)'' In which manner, as, just as, introducing a [[m|en|simile]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Introducing a new sentence: so, in this way.^(OLD 2012)

+ # According as.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(law)'' In which state or condition.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''quāliter quāliter'': in whatever way, however.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ===Conjunction===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' That; so that; in order that.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}