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quā By which route
quā is a Latin Adverb that primarily means By which route.
Definitions for quā
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
by which route, where
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
(interr.). By what road? which way? (b) in which part or direction? (c) towards which result, which way?
- 2
(rel.). By which route, in which direction.
Sentences with quā
Latin to English
Tyrannus urbem dēlēvit ex quā mīlia cīvium fūgerant.Compare The tyrant destroyed the city from which thousands of citizens had fled.
Vēritātem semper quaerāmus, sine quā maximī animī nōn possunt esse fēlīcēs.Compare Let us always seek the truth, without which the greatest souls cannot be happy.
Per alta vade spatia sublimi aethere; testare nullos esse, qua veheris, deos.Compare Go on through the lofty spaces of high heaven and bear witness, where thou ridest, that there are no gods.
A crudele genus nec fidum femina nomen! a pereat, didicit fallere si qua virum.Compare O cruel, faithless race of women! May they perish who have learned to betray a husband.
Heu, miserande puer, si qua fata aspera rumpas, tu Marcellus eris.Compare Alas, poor youth! If only you could escape your harsh fate! Marcellus you shall be.
Felix, qui propriis aevum transegit in arvis, ipsa domus puerum quem videt, ipsa senem; qui baculo nitens in qua reptavit harena unius numerat saecula longa casae.Compare Happy the man who his whole time doth bound within the enclosure of his little ground. Happy the man whom the same humble place, the hereditary cottage of his race, from his first rising infancy has known. (Tr. Abraham Cowley)
At mihi cella datur non tota clusa fenestra in qua nec Boreas ipse manere velit.Compare But to me is assigned a garret, shut in by an ill-fitting window, in which even Boreas himself would not care to abide.
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia manes.Compare There are two gates of Sleep: the one is made of horn, they say, and affords the outlet for genuine apparitions; the other's a gate of brightly-shining ivory: this way the Shades send up to earth false dreams that impose upon us.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 485.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1529.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "quā (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/qua.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 485.on page 485
