intj
Meaning 1
The cawing sound of a crow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
qua
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kwɑː/
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rhymes with -ɑː
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/kweɪ/
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rhymes with -eɪ
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CMU ARPABET: K W AA1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
prep
Meaning 2
as; in the capacity of; acting as
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
Examples
- 2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true. "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
- 2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24. Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Imitative.
From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: jakožto — in the capacity of
- Czech: jako — in the capacity of
- Danish: qua — in the capacity of
- Danish: i egenskab af — in the capacity of
- Dutch: qua — in the capacity of
- Dutch: als zodanig — in the capacity of
- Dutch: wat betreft — in the capacity of
- Esperanto: kiel — in the capacity of
- Faroese: sum — in the capacity of
- Faroese: eins og — in the capacity of
- French: en tant que — in the capacity of
- Greek: ως (os) — in the capacity of
- Polish: jako — in the capacity of
- Swedish: i egenskap av — in the capacity of