status quo
See also: Status quo
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌstætəs ˈkwoʊ/, [ˌstæɾəs ˈkwoʊ]
Audio (CA) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwoʊ/
Noun edit
status quo (plural status quos or (rare) statuses quo or (rare, hypercorrect) stati quo)
- The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
- 2015 July 27, Noah Berlatsky, “NK Jemisin: the fantasy writer upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'”, in The Guardian[1]:
- “As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”
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the state of things
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Further reading edit
- status quo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- status quo ante bellum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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status quo m (plural status quo's)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin status quo.
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status quo n (indeclinable)
- status quo (state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs)
Further reading edit
- status quo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- status quo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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status quo m (invariable)
- status quo (the existing state of things)