que
Portuguese
/kɨ/, /ki/, /ke/
conjunction
Definitions
- that connecting noun clause
- that introducing the result of the main clause
- than used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison
- (only in subordinate clauses) seeing as; since; for; because introduces explanatory clause.
- (only in subordinate clauses) and indicating the consequences of an action, often threateningly
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese que inherited from Latin quod (which, what), quid (what, that, something) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷid
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Who-athon English
- elsewho English
- everwho English
- quid English
- quod google English
- which English
- who English
- who'da English
- who've English
- whoever English
- whosoever English
- you-know-who English
- quia Latin
- quid Latin
- quid ni Latin
- quidni Latin
- quod Latin
- quodsi Latin
- quī Latin
- che Italian
- essere Italian
- presque French
- que French
- quelque French
- quoi French
- aunque Spanish, Castilian
- conque Spanish, Castilian
- dizque Spanish, Castilian
- porque Spanish, Castilian
- que Spanish, Castilian
- queísmo Spanish, Castilian
- qué Spanish, Castilian
- ser Spanish, Castilian
- οὐτιδανός Ancient Greek
- *kʷe- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷid Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷod Proto-Indo-European
- por Portuguese
- porque Portuguese
- ser Portuguese
- who Middle English
- *čьto Proto-Slavic
- que Old French
- ke Esperanto
- que Galician
- ce Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- că Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- quod vide Translingual
- whois Translingual
- que Old Portuguese
- seer Old Portuguese
- *kʷid Proto-Celtic
- cã Aromanian
- tsi Aromanian
- *kʷid Proto-Italic
- cu Romansh
- tge Romansh
- que Asturian
- qué Asturian
- ce Friulian
- que Old Occitan
- ché Venetian
- *tši Proto-Albanian
- *ki Proto-Balto-Slavic
- co Dalmatian
- ke Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ki Kabuverdianu
- ki óra Kabuverdianu
- kusé Kabuverdianu
- cwè Walloon
- qwè Walloon
- quoi Bourguignon
- chi Sardinian
- che Istriot
- chè Corsican
- purke Guinea-Bissau Creole
- que Fala
- que Indo-Portuguese
- hu Kriol
- ki Kristang