Etymology

status quo

Today it means: The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs. Full definition →

Latin status
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromstatus“state”
  2. English todaystatus quo

From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”).

Words from the same roots

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