QUAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kwɑː/

  韻: -ɑː

• IPA: /kweɪ/

  韻: -eɪ

前置詞

qua

1. (chiefly philosophy) as; in the capacity of; acting as
   • 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet and His Problems”, in The Sacred Wood:

     Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; […]

   • 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.

   • 1962: Norman Malcolm; Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68 (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))

     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.

     I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.

   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 458:

     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.

   • 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/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."

   • 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.

   • 2022 March 29, Dwight Garner, “In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.

語源 2

Imitative.

間投詞

qua

1. The cawing sound of a crow.
   • 1909, The Country Gentleman, volume 74, page 266:

     Crows have a language of their own in a wild state that any observant person can learn. […] Then he would straighten his head back and, with the most comical bowing and wagging, say: "Qua qua qua, qua qua qua" for perhaps a minute.

   • 2012, Jaman Tree, I Crow River:

     Qua... qua... qua... out of the blue I hear the crows cawing with great fanfare as they announce to the world at large that they are here by my side and intend to probe into my being.

アナグラム

• QAU, UAQ

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷaː]

副詞

quā (not comparable)

1. where (on which side; at or in which place; in what direction; by what way)

   quā... eā... ― where... there...

2. as (in the capacity or character of)

   ēns quā ēns ― being as being

3. how (in what way; by what method; to what degree or extent)
   1. (indefinite) after sī, nisi, num, nē: in any way, anyhow
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.17–18:

        hoc rēgnum dea gentibus esse –
        sī quā fāta sinant – iam tum tenditque fovetque.

        The goddess already aims and fondly hopes that this [city] – if in any way the fates allow it – [will] be the seat of ruling power over [all] nations.
        [In other words, long before the founding of Rome the goddess Juno wanted Carthage to become the imperial city. See: Juno (mythology); Carthage.]

関連する語

語源 2

Inflection of quī (“who, which”).

発音

• quā: (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷaː]
• qua: (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷaː]

代名詞

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quī

代名詞

qua

1. inflection of quī:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

使用する際の注意点

• qua is commonly used for quae in the above forms of the indefinite variant of the pronoun quī.

語源 3

Inflection of quis (“anyone, something, anyone, anything”).

代名詞

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quis

参照

• “qua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “qua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “qua”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) how old are you: qua aetate es?
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    
  • (ambiguous) to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) the question at issue: res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
    
• Allen, Joseph Henry; Greenough, James B. (1903), Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, § 149