quality的词源
英文词源
- quality
- quality: [13] The ultimate source of quality is Latin quālis ‘of what sort?’, a compound pronoun formed from quī ‘who’ and the adjectival suffix -ālis. From it were derived the noun quālitās, source of English quality, and quālificāre, from which English gets qualify [16].
=> qualify - quality (n.)
- c. 1300, "temperament, character, disposition," from Old French qualite "quality, nature, characteristic" (12c., Modern French qualité), from Latin qualitatem (nominative qualitas) "a quality, property; nature, state, condition" (said [Tucker, etc.] to have been coined by Cicero to translate Greek poiotes), from qualis "what kind of a," from PIE pronominal base *kwo- (see who). Meaning "degree of goodness" is late 14c. Meaning "social rank, position" is c. 1400. Noun phrase quality time first recorded 1977. Quality of life is from 1943. Quality control first attested 1935.
中文词源
词根词缀： -qual-性质,特征 + -ity名词词尾
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：quality 词源，quality 含义。
来自拉丁语qualis,种类，类型，要求，来自PIE*kwo,疑问代词词干，词源同quantity,what,who.引申词义质量，品质。
