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quoad

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quoad.

Pronunciation

Preposition

quoad

  1. (archaic) With respect to.
    • 1884, Horace Smith, A treatise on the law of negligence:
      It seems to have been rather on this ground that quoad Hughes, who was a volunteer, the defendant had not been guilty of any negligence at all []

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Latin

Etymology

From quod + ad (i.e. "ad quod"). See also quam, quandō, usque.

Pronunciation

Adverb

quoad (not comparable)

  1. as far as
    Synonym: quousque
  2. as long as
  3. until
  4. while
  5. (rare, as a question) how long, when

Preposition

quoad (+ accusative)

  1. with respect to

References

  • quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quoad”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "quoad", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • quoad”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
  • Bruno Meinecke, Ph.D. (1960) Third Year Latin. (Allyn and Bacon, Inc.)
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