qual-a: what (= what sort of, of what kind, what quality; indicating
comparison);
quala esas la vetero: what sort of weather is it?; quala viro il
esas?: what kind of a man is he?;
quala vento!: what a wind!; quala genio!: what genius!; quale:
how; (in comparison) as, like;
quale se: as though, as if; quale (od, qual-maniere) il
facas ol?: how did he do it?;
quale standas la malada infanti?: how are the sick children?; explikez
quale vu facis ol: explain how you did it;
quale vu standas?: how do you do?; se vu ne savas quale, ne facez ol:
if you do not know how, do not do it;
en ta loko, quale la texti dicas, erektesis franda monumento: in that
place, as the texts say, was erected a great monument;
Qual-eso: quality; the relative nature of something, good or bad; -eso
prima: first or prime quality;
-es-ala analizo: qualitative analysis. V. exp.: vid. kom. — DeFIS
quali-o: (orni.) quail (Tetrao coturnix).
qualifik-ar: (tr.) to qualify: to ascribe the quality of; (gram.)
to express a quality; to style, term;
-o: qualification: attribution of a quality or title; -anta:
qualifying;
-ilo: (gram.) a qualificative; -anto: (R.C. rel.) a
qualificator. Def.: Expresar la qualeso di, atribuar qualeso ad ulu, ulo. Ex.:
L’adjektivo qualifikas la nomo. Qualifikar ulu kom fripono. La verko esas
qualifikita kom herezioza. — DEFIS
quankam: (conj.) although, though. Ex.: Il esas jeneroza, quankam
il ne esas richa. Quankam il esas mea amiko. — L
quant-a, -e: (of quantity, price) how much (ex.: quanta multo
(od quanto) de ta stofo:
quante to kustas?); (of numbers) how many (ex.: quanta homi
mortis?) (of time) how long (ex.:
dum quanta tempo il restis); quanta-foye: how many times; -e
pok-a, -e: how little, how few;
-e granda: how great, how big; -o: (concrete) quantity;
-eso: (an abstract) quantity (as in math., physics, music, etc.);
-esi imaginara: imaginary quantities;
-esma dio di la monato: which day of the month; -es-ala:
quantitative (analysis, etc.);
quanto esas du plus tri?: how much is two plus three?; quanton
(od, quante vu evas?): how old are you?;
segun quante: in the measure as, as in so far as; quante min me
manjas, tante min me drinkas:
the less I eat, the less I drink; quante plu la homi posedas, tante plu li
volas posedar:
the more a man has, the more (or, so much the more) he wants. — DeFIS
quar: four; -opl-a, -o: quadruple, four-fold; -opl-igar: to
quadruplicate;
-opa: quaternate, disposed by fours; -a-dek: forty;
-a-dek-esma: (ordinal) fortieth;
-a-dek-imo: (fraction) a fortieth; quar-pec-igar: to divide
(ulo) into four pieces; (for other derivative forms, cf.
du). — eFIS
quaranten-o: quarantine; impozar -o ad ulu: to q. (ulu). —
DEFIRS
quarc-o: (min.) quartz. — DEFIRS
quart-o: (mus.) fourth; (fencing) quarte; (piquet)
quart; (nav.) a four (or two) hour watch;
quart-esar: to be on watch; prenar la -o: to take the watch. —
DeFIRS
quartan-a: quartan: occurring every fourth day; -a febro: q.
fever. — DEFIS
quarter-o: quarter, district, ward, section of a city. — DEFIRS
quartermastr-o: (milit.) quartermaster, one who provides quarters,
provisions, etc.; (nav.) quartermaster, a petty officer rating. — DEFIRS
quarteron-a, -(ul)o: quadroon. Def.: Genitito da blanko e da mulato;
V-25. — DeFIRS
quartet-o: (mus.) quartet. — DEFIRS
quartik-o*: (math.) quartic. — EFIS
quasi-o (-kortico): (pharm.) quassia; -iero: (bot.)
q. tree (Quassia amara). — DEFIS
quaternar-a: (math., geol.) quaternary. — DEFIS
quaternion-o: (math.) quaternion. — DEFIS
quatren-o: quatrain. Def.: Poemeto di quar versi; III-143. — DEFIS
