The corpus record — Latin

qualitas

qualitas · f

a quality

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 13 · 22.29/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 5 · 17.21/10k
Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 2 · 14.57/10k
De Carne Christi 12 · 12.62/10k
Academica 5 · 10.27/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 4 · 7.81/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 2 · 6.36/10k
Ad Nationes 9 · 6.02/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 12 · 5.29/10k
Institutio Oratoria 81 · 4.71/10k
Alexander Severus 5 · 4.68/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quālĭtas — Lewis & Short

quālĭtas, ātis, f.qualis, III.,

I a quality, property, nature, state, condition (class.; a word formed by Cicero as the translation of Gr. poio/ths; freq. only in postclass. prose), Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 24; cf.: qualitates igitur appellavi, quas poio/thtas Graeci vocant: quod ipsum apud Graecos non est vulgi verbum, sed philosophorum, id. ib. 1, 7, 25 sq.; cf. id. N. D. 2, 37, 94: litoris nostri, Col. 8, 17, 8; so, caeli, Quint. 5, 9, 15: facti, id. 7, 4, 16 et saep.— In plur.: qualitatium differentia, Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159: ager aliis qualitatibus aestimandus est, Col. 2, 2, 17: in verbis genera et qualitates et personas et numeros, i. e. moods, Quint. 1, 4, 27: pro qualitate mensurae, Vulg. 1 Par. 28, 17: sicut in organo qualitatis sonus immutatur, the sound of the mode, or rhythm, id. Sap. 19, 17.

In the wild

qualitate Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 6
qualitatem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.40
qualitatibus Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 38.5
qualitatis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.10
qualitate Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.4.44
qualitatem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.21.10

6 of 297 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.