English word quality comes from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-, and later Proto-Italic *kʷis (Who, what (interrogative).)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| *kʷi- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
| *kʷís | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | Who, what (interrogative). Who, which, that (relative) Which, what. |
| *kʷis | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | Who, what (interrogative). |
| qualis | Latin (lat) | (in similes) such...as, such as, as. What (kind, condition etc) (interrogative) of what kind. |
| qualitatem | Latin (lat) | |
| qualité | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | |
| quality | English (en) | (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.). (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.. [...] |