quality

• n. 品質, [stat] quality; 特徴; 才能
• adj.

PIE*kwoの疑問代名詞の語幹、quantity、what、whoと語源的には同じ。

quality

quality: [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].
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quality (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.

1. Buying budget-priced furniture needn 't mean compromising on quality or style.

価格の経済的な家具を買うことは、品質とスタイルを犠牲にすることを意味するわけではありません。

2.Today 's organic wine producer is typically a small， quality ?conscious family concern.

現在の有機ワインメーカーは一般的に品質を重視する小規模ファミリー企業である。

3.Little of the existing housing is of good enough quality .

既存の住宅ではほとんど品質がクリアされていない。

4.We have been successful because we are offering a quality service.

私たちはサービスレベルが一流であるために成功してきました。

5.Even the quality papers agreed that it was a triumph.

厳粛な内容の新聞でも勝利だと考えている。