Translation
quantity, amount
Word origin
From Latin quantus ('how much'), the same root that gave English quantity and quantum.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- quantus
- English cognates
- quantity, quantum
Examples
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We need a large quantity of water.
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The amount was bigger than I thought.
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What quantity of sugar do you want?
is the amount of a mass; is the count of separate things. Both take when they measure what follows, which is why it is and never .
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