status quo
English
/ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/, /ˌstætəs ˈkwoʊ/, /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwoʊ/
noun
Definitions
- The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin status (manner of standing, condition, standing, position, state, status, id, apparel, and other senses, carriage, stan, dress, fixed, manner, set, attitude), in statu quō ante bellum erat (the way it was before the war).
Origin
Latin
in statu quō ante bellum erat
Gloss
the way it was before the war
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- state English
- status English
- status quoism English
- status quoist English
- status Finnish
- in statu quō ante bellum erat Latin
- staticum Latin
- status Latin
- status quo Latin
- státus Hungarian
- stato Italian
- status Dutch, Flemish
- статус-кво Russian
- *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- status Norwegian Bokmål
- status Norwegian Nynorsk
- stát Irish
- estat Old French
- stato Esperanto
- estatus Catalan, Valencian
- estadullo Galician
- staet Middle Dutch
- statuss Latvian
- stad Old Irish
- שטאַט Yiddish
- estado Old Portuguese
- stat Middle Low German
- estat Occitan
- stadi Romansh
- status Romansh
- stedi Romansh
- estat xno
- Était Bourguignon
- était Bourguignon
- istadu Sardinian
- istau Sardinian
- isthaddu Sardinian
- statu Sardinian
- statu Corsican
- stado Mirandese
- étot Picard