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/ka.li.te/
Translation
quality; good point, virtue
Word origin
From Latin qualitas, coined by Cicero on qualis ('of what kind') to translate a Greek philosophical term. The everyday sense of how good something is came much later.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- qualitas
- English cognates
- quality, qualify, qualitative
Grammar
Examples
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This fabric is of very good quality.
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Patience is her greatest quality.
paie , .
You pay a little more, but the quality is there.
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He came in his capacity as a witness.
l' ' dégradée cette .
Air quality has got worse this week.
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