Qua

Etymology
From qua:.

Adverb

 * 1) In the capacity of.
 * 2) * 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
 * As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
 * 1) * 1962: Norman Malcolm; Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39{1}; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68{2} (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))
 * {1} For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other.
 * {2} I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.
 * 1) * 2003: Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, page 458 (Penguin, 2004)
 * It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.
 * 1) * 2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.
 * "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
 * 1) * 2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.
 * Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.

Translations

 * Danish:, i egenskab af, eks. han førte ordet qua formand


 * Dutch: qua, als zodanig, wat betreft

Anagrams

 * QAU

Conjunction

 * 1) as, qua in the capacity of
 * 2)  by virtue of because of

Adverb

 * 1) regarding, concerning qua
 * Qua gezondheid ben ik helemaal in orde
 * Concerning my health, I'm perfectly fine

Synonyms

 * wat ... betreft

Pronoun
(plural qui)


 * 1) who (subject)

Usage notes
To ask for an object, use quan instead.

Adverb

 * 1) here (relatively close to the speaker)

Adverb

 * 1) as; in the capacity or character of
 * 2) in so far as
 * ens qua ens ("being as being")

Etymology 2
Inflection of qui:

Etymology 3
Inflection of quis:

Etymology
The suffix has been used since around the 17th and 18th century. It is most likely an early attempt at Romanizing the Min Nan for 官 (POJ: koaⁿ) official. Since "hong" (行) merchants were technically officials of the lowest (9th) rank, the suffix "qua" was added to their names in honour of their positions in the Qing government.

Suffix

 * 1) official

Adverb

 * 1) here

Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese; Vietnamese reading of Han character 過

Preposition

 * 1) through, across, by

Adjective

 * 1) last

Verb

 * 1)  To be gone.
 * 2)  To cross.

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