different between quality vs aroma

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin qu?lit?tem, accusative of qu?lit?s, from qu?lis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?o- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ??????? (poiót?s, “quality”), coined by Plato from ????? (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?ti/
• (UK, obsolete) IPA^(key): /?kwæl?ti/, /?kwæl?t?/
• (US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?ti/, [?k?w????i]

Noun

quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)

1. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.

2. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
3. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

4. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
5. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
6. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

7. (countable, Britain, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
   • 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)

     It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Hyponyms

• human quality
• industrial quality

Coordinate terms

• (a property that differentiates): quiddity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)

1. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

Derived terms

• qualityness

Related terms

• qualia
• qualitative

Translations

References

• Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• quality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quality at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ar?mata (“spices”) (or ar?ma (“spice”)), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???o?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

aroma (plural aromas or aromata)

1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

Synonyms

• (a pleasant smell): fragrance, nosegay, scent
• See also Thesaurus:aroma

Antonyms

• (a pleasant smell): odor/odour, pungency, reek, stench

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -o-rama, -orama, Amaro, amaro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???o.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a??o.ma/

Etymology 1

From Latin ar?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma).

Noun

aroma f (plural aromes)

1. aroma

Derived terms

• aromar

Related terms

• aromàtic

Etymology 2

Verb

aroma

1. third-person singular present indicative form of aromar
2. second-person singular imperative form of aromar

Further reading

• “aroma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aroma” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “aroma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aroma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• aroom

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ar?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??ro?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: aro?ma

Noun

aroma n (plural aroma's, diminutive aromaatje n)

1. aroma
2. food flavouring

Derived terms

• aromatisch

Esperanto

Etymology

From aromo +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?roma/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma
• Rhymes: -oma

Adjective

aroma (accusative singular aroman, plural aromaj, accusative plural aromajn)

1. aromatic

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin ar?ma (“spice, herb”), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “spice, herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rom?]
• Hyphenation: aro?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Noun

aroma (plural aromák)

1. aroma

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ar?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aroma m (plural aromi)

1. aroma, fragrance, smell
2. flavour, flavor
3. spice

Derived terms

Anagrams

• amaro

Further reading

• aroma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ro?.ma/, [ä??o?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?ro.ma/, [?????m?]

Noun

ar?ma n (genitive ar?matis); third declension

1. spice, herb

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• ar?maticus

Descendants

References

• aroma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Noun

aroma m (definite singular aromaen, indefinite plural aromaer, definite plural aromaene)

1. aroma

Related terms

• aromatisk

References

• “aroma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Noun

aroma m (definite singular aromaen, indefinite plural aromaer or aromaar, definite plural aromaene or aromaane)

1. aroma

Related terms

• aromatisk

References

• “aroma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aroma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.??o.m?/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma

Noun

aroma m (plural aromas)

1. aroma

   Synonyms: cheiro, odor, perfume

2. flavour

Related terms

• aromático

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar??ma/
• Hyphenation: a?ro?ma

Noun

aróma f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. aroma

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ar?ma (“spices”), from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??oma/, [a??o.ma]

Noun

aroma m (plural aromas)

1. aroma

   Synonyms: esencia, fragancia, olor, perfume

Derived terms

Related terms

• aromatizar

Further reading

• “aroma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.