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quid
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?d/, [k?w??d]
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin quid (“what, something”), neuter singular of quis (“who”).
Noun
quid (plural quids)
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
Etymology 2
Likely derives from the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”), referring to the exchange of goods/services for money.
Noun
quid (plural quid or (rare) quids)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea.
- 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place
- They invited him to come to-morrow, […] and bring half a quid with him.
- 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place
- (Britain, colloquial, slang) Pound sterling.
- (Australia, colloquial) pound (before the 1966 currency change)
- (Ireland, colloquial) pound, punt
- (Ireland, colloquial) euro
Synonyms
- (pound sterling):
- pound, pound sterling
- (slang): nicker, sov
Derived terms
- quids in
Etymology 3
From Middle English quide, quede, from Old English cwidu, cwudu (“that which is chewed, cud”). Doublet of cud.
Noun
quid (plural quids)
- A piece of chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) the act of chewing such tobacco
Verb
quid (third-person singular simple present quids, present participle quidding, simple past and past participle quidded)
- To chew tobacco
- (of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing
See also
Anagrams
- Qidu
French
Etymology
From Latin quid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwid/
Pronoun
quid
- (formal) what about
- Synonyms: qu'en est-il de, quoi
Further reading
- “quid” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
quid m (invariable)
- A certain something (that is somehow undefinable)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *k?id; compare *k?is.
The sense “why” is an adverbial accusative; compare Ancient Greek ?? (tí).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?id/, [k??d?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwid/, [kwid?]
Pronoun
quid
- neuter nominative/accusative singular of quis
- (internal accusative) what, how?
- Aeneid 12.872 by Vergil
- Quid nunc t? tua, Turne, potest germ?na iuv?re?
- How will your sister help you now, Turnus?
- Quid nunc t? tua, Turne, potest germ?na iuv?re?
- Aeneid 12.872 by Vergil
Derived terms
- quid tibi nomen est?
- quid nomen tibi est?
- quid si? (what if?)
- Quid si illud addimus.
- quid tum? (what then? how then?)
- quid ergo (ironically)
- quid agis?
- quid ais?
Adverb
quid (not comparable)
- why? what for?
- Gesta Danorum (“deeds of the Danes”) by Saxo Grammaticus (in Latin caput 8, liber 1, translation in English chapter 8, book 1)
- Quid gladi? pugn?s incurv??
- Why do you fight with a bent sword?
- Quid gladi? pugn?s incurv??
- Gesta Danorum (“deeds of the Danes”) by Saxo Grammaticus (in Latin caput 8, liber 1, translation in English chapter 8, book 1)
Interjection
quid
- well, why, what?
Derived terms
- quid n?, quidn?
- quid ita
Related terms
- quod
- quis
Descendants
References
- quid in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quid in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quid in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Spanish
Noun
quid m (plural quids or quid)
- gist; point; crux
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quidlet
English
Etymology
quid +? -let
Pronunciation
Noun
quidlet (plural quidlets)
- (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, informal) quid; pound in money
- 1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays
- All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank.
- 1939, The Strand magazine (volume 97)
- Say he had lost five thousand quidlets. And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?
- 1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays
Anagrams
- quilted
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