Pronounced: SEN-uh-ree, adj
Notes: A new word to me
Yesterday’s word
The word qua means “in the capacity or character of; as”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I remember this word from way back; I ran across it in the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers. (It is not the first book in the series, but it was the first one I read.) It was recommended to me by my tenth grade teacher as the subject for a book review. That particular teacher also liked mysteries and introduced me to the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. I may have run across the word elsewhere, but I do not remember. Our word came from Latin word qua (which way; as), which is itself a derivative of qui (who).
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