different between quod vs qued

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.

Noun

quod (countable and uncountable, plural quods)

1. (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
   • 1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69,

     […] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.

   • 1878, John Wrathall Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, page 264,

     […] and declined their escort, desiring to be conducted to “quod” by the gallant South Australian police, […] .

   • 2000, R.I.C. Publications, Workbook E: Society and Environment, page 48,

     From 1855-1903 a chapel was built, the boat shed and holding cell constructed, Government House was constructed as a summer residence for the Governor and the Quod (slang for prison) was constructed.

   • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 202,

     Pity McNamara?s still doing his stretch in the quod, but he?ll be out soon.

2. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
   • c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback ?ISBN, page 7,

     I don?t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months? quod for them.

Translations

Alternative forms

• quad

Verb

quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)

1. (slang, archaic) To confine in prison.

Etymology 2

Verb

quod

1. (obsolete) Quoth.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner?s Prologue and Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2009, Robert Boenig, Andrew Taylor (editors), The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, page 190,

     “No fors,” quod he, “but tel me al youre grief.”

   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 1868, The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422,

     “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”

   • 1908, James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey, 2010, Cambridge University Press, page 416,

     “And therefore I have granted to their request,” quod the King; […] .

Latin

Etymology

Inflection of qu? (“who, which”), corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *k?od, whence also Old English hwæt (English what).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?od/, [k??d?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwod/, [kw?d?]

Pronoun

quod

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?

Conjunction

quod

1. which
2. because
3. until
4. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) that (in indirect speech)

Related terms

• quid

Descendants

References

• quod in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quod in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quod in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quod in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• quede, queed, quaad

Etymology

From Old English *cw?ad, *cw?d (“evil, bad”), from Proto-Germanic *kw?daz (“bad, ugly”) (whence also Old English cw?ad (“dung; excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g??dh- (“muck, excrement, dung, filth, disgust, vermin”).

Cognate with Old Frisian qu?d (“bad, evil”), whence Saterland Frisian kwood (“evil; bad”), West Frisian kwea. Also cognate with Dutch kwaad (“evil, bad”), German Low German quaad (“bad; evil; sinful; mean; angry”), Middle High German qu?t (“evil; bad”).

Related also to Old English cw?ad (“dung; dirt; filth”, noun), Old Frisian qu?t (“dung; manure”), Middle Low German qu?t (“dirt; filth”), German Kot (“dung; feces; filth; muck”).

Adjective

qued

1. bad; evil [from the 13th c.]
   • Ludus Coventriae (ante 1475)

     The body that was heavy as lead, be the Jews never so qued, A-riseth from grave..

   • Sidrak and Bokkus (ante 1500)

     Young and old, good and qued.

Noun

qued (uncountable)

1. evil; harm; wickedness [from the 13th c.]
2. an evil person or being, especially the devil