quo

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /kwəʊ/ (US) IPA(key): /kwoʊ/ Rhymes: -əʊ === Etymology 1 === See quoth. ==== Verb ==== quo (transitive, obsolete) quoth === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== quo (plural quos) Paired with quid, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something given in exchange for something else. ===== Related terms ===== == Ido == === Etymology === From qua +‎ -o. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kwo/, /kwɔ/ === Pronoun === quo (plural qui) (relative pronoun) which Esis tre bona kultelo quo me tranchis per. ― It was really good knife which I cut with. (interrogative pronoun) what Quo eventis? ― What (thing) happened? (direct question) Ka tu povas helpar me decidar quo metar? ― Can you help me to decide what to wear? (indirect question) ==== Related terms ==== qua (“who (person)”) qui (“who (plural)”) pro quo (“why”) === See also === ube (“where”) kande (“when”) quala (“what kind of”) quale (“how”) quanta (“how much”) quanto (“quantity”) == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷɔː] === Etymology 1 === Adverb declined from quī. See also the same meanings in ubī. ==== Adverb ==== quō (not comparable) (interrogative) whither, whereto, where (relative, interrogative) to or in which place, whither, where to what end, for what purpose, wherefore, why replaces ut when there is a comparative in the subordinate clause of purpose: to the end that, in order that, so that, that Quo expeditiore re frumentaria uteretur ― in order that he might make use of the looser supplies of provisions (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 11) ===== Antonyms ===== unde ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Proto-Italic *kʷōd. ==== Pronoun ==== quō (relative) ablative masculine/neuter singular of quī ==== Determiner ==== quō (interrogative) ablative masculine/neuter singular of quī === Etymology 3 === ==== Pronoun ==== quō (interrogative) ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of quis === References === “quo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “quo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “quo”, 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 == === Pronoun === quo alternative form of who (“who”, nominative) == Yola == === Verb === quo alternative form of co === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63