qua
pronunciation
How to pronounce qua in British English:
UK [kweɪ]
How to pronounce qua in American English:
US [kweɪ]
Word Origin
- qua
- "as, in the capacity of," from Latin qua "where? on which side? at which place? which way? in what direction?" figuratively "how? in what manner? by what method?; to what extent? in what degree?" correlative pronominal adverb of place, from PIE *kwo-, stem of relative and interrogative pronouns (source also of Old English hwa "who;" see who).
Example
- 1. But a weak yuan was a sine qua non for a robust chinese recovery .
- 2. They considered the unexpected federal fiat a violation of religious liberty and individual conscience , but they didn 't think these wrongs had anything to do with themselves qua women .
- 3. Like philosophy , computing qua computing is worth teaching less for the subject matter itself and more for the habits of mind that studying it encourages .
- 4. Just as corn and soy are the bread and butter of big ag , the persistence of small , traditionally conceptualized farms practicing time honored agricultural techniques is the sine qua non of the sustainable food movement .
- 5. Chocolate consumption enhances cognitive function , which is a sine qua non for winning the nobel prize , and it closely correlates with the number of nobel laureates in each country .