qualis

qualis

1. plural of quali

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“interrogative, relative stem”) and maybe *h₂el- (“to grow”) (cf. the sense of indolēs, from this root). Cognate with Ancient Greek πηλίκος (pēlíkos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.lis]

quālis

1. (interrogative) of what kind, sort, description, nature; what kind of

   tālis ... quālis ― just like

2. (relative) of such kind as, one such as, just as, as, like
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.69:

     [...] quālis coniectā cerva sagittā, [...].

     [...] like a deer, wounded by an arrow [...].
     (Introduces a famous simile comparing Dido to a wounded deer; like the deer, she too will perish.)

3. (technical, philosophy) of a particular kind
   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 117.27.6:

     Prius aliquid esse dēbet, deinde quāle esse.

     Something first needs to be, and then to be of a particular kind.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• tālis

• “qualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “qualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "qualis", 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)
• “qualis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti