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English word quality comes from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-, and later Proto-Italic *kʷis (Who, what (interrogative).)
*kʷi- (Proto-Indo-European)
*kʷís (Proto-Indo-European)
Who, what (interrogative). Who, which, that (relative) Which, what.
*kʷis (Proto-Italic)
Who, what (interrogative).
qualis (Latin)
(in similes) such...as, such as, as. What (kind, condition etc) (interrogative) of what kind.
qualitatem (Latin)
qualité (Old French)
quality (English)
(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.). (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.. [...]