Adjektiv 3. Dekl. zweiendig (i-Dekl.)
quālis e
Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch:
quālis, e (adjektivisch zu quī mit Suffix ālis; vergleiche griechisch πηλί-κος), wie beschaffen, welcherlei, was für ein
I)interrogativ
qualis est istorum oratio? was ist das für ein Reden?Cic.
quali fide, quali pietate existimatis esse eos, qui etc.?Cic.
II)relativ: mit und ohne korrespondierendem talis, dergleichen, wie
qualem te praebuisti, talem te impertiasCic.
doce me, quales sintCic.
rei natura qualis sit, quaerimus, wie beschaffenCic.
in hoc bello, quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit, dergleichen usw.Cic.
quale est iter in silvis, sowie, dergleichenVerg.
bei Anführungen, Zitaten usw.: wie, wie zum BeispielQuint. 1, 5, 65
poetisch: zur Einführung eines Gleichnisses für das Adverb qualiter, wie, gleichwie, sowie
qualis Philomela queriturVerg. georg. 4, 511
quale caelum subrubetOv.
qualisqualis = qualiscumque, wie nur beschaffen (es sei)ICt.
III)indefinit: irgendwie beschaffen, substantivisch: quale, das was irgend eine Beschaffenheit hat
illa, quae appellant qualia (ποία)Cic. Acad. 1, 28
prius aliquid esse debet, deinde quale esseSen. ep. 117, 27
Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary:
quālis, e, pronoun adjective 2 CA-
I)Interrogatively, how constituted, of what sort, of what nature, what kind of a
qualis oratoris putas esse historiam scribere?Cic.
qualis est istorum oratio? what kind of a speech is that?Cic.
In indirect questions
metuo qualem tu me esse hominem existumasCic.
qualis esset natura montis, cognoscereCaes.
doce me quales sint corpore, what sort of a body they haveCic.
In exclamations
Hei mihi, qualis erat! what a man!Verg.
dic, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt!Enn. ap. Cic.
II)relative, so constituted, of such a kind, such as, as (often correlative with talis)
ut qualem te iam antea populo R. praebuisti, talem te et nobis impertiasCic.
in hoc bello, quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit, the like of whichCic.
equitum acies qualis quae instructissima potestLiv.
bis sex . . . Qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellusVerg.
Cui mater sese tulit obvia, qualis equos fatigat Harpalyce, like Harpalyce, when she wearies, etc.Verg.
In quotations and citations, as, as for instance, as for example
aperta et clara (somnia), quale est de illo, etc.Cic.
Adverbial, as, just as
Qualis maerens philomela queritur fetūsVerg.
falcata cauda est, Qualia sinuantur cornua lunaeOv.
Indefinite, as substantive neuter, things endowed with qualities
et illa effici quae appellant qualiaCic.
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