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Quality Source Latin Noun English French Nature Meaning

正面 765.quality
英 ['kwɒlɪtɪ]美 ['kwɑləti]

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释义:
n. 质量,[统计] 品质;特性;才能adj. 高品质的;棒极了
例句:
1. Buying budget-priced furniture needn't mean compromising on quality or style.买价钱经济的家具并不意味着就要牺牲质量和样式。

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quality 质量,品质来自拉丁语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。
qualityquality: [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].=> qualifyquality (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."

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