status quo

See also: Status quo

English

Alternative forms

• statu quo (rare)
• status in quo (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌstætəs ˈkwoʊ/, [ˌstæɾəs ˈkwoʊ]

• Audio (Canada):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwoʊ/

Noun

status quo (plural status quos or (rare) statuses quo or (rare, hypercorrect) stati quo)

1. The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
   • 2015 July 27, Noah Berlatsky, “NK Jemisin: the fantasy writer upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     “As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”

Related terms

• in statu quo
• statu-quo-ite
• status in quo
• status quo ante
• status quo ante bellum
• status quo warrior

 

Translations

the state of things

• Arabic: وَضْع رَاهِن m (waḍʕ rāhin)
• Armenian: ստատուս քվո (hy) (status kʻvo)
• Azerbaijani: status-kvo
• Bulgarian: стату́кво (bg) n (statúkvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現狀／现状 (zh) (xiànzhuàng)

• Danish: status quo c
• Dutch: status quo (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭstato, ĝisnuna stato
• Finnish: status quo (fi), vallitseva tila, nykyinen tilanne
• French: statuquo (fr) m, statu quo (fr) m
• German: Status quo (de) m, Ausgangslage f, Ausgangszustand m
• Greek: καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós), στάτους κβο (el) n (státous kvo)
• Hebrew: סטטוס קוו (he)
• Ido: nuna stando
• Indonesian: status quo
• Italian: status quo (it) m
• Japanese: 現状 (ja) (げんじょう, genjō)
• Khmer: ស្ថានភាពនៅដដែល (stʰaan pʰiep nɨv dɑdael)
• Malay: status quo
• Persian: وضع موجود (vaz'-e mowjud), وضع فعلی (vaz'-e fe'li)
• Polish: status quo (pl) n
• Portuguese: status quo (pt) m, statu quo (pt) m
• Romanian: statu-quo (ro) n
• Russian: ста́тус-кво (ru) m (státus-kvo)
• Spanish: estado del asunto m, statu quo (es)
• Tagalog: kairalan
• Turkish: statüko (tr)
• Ukrainian: ста́тус-кво́ m (státus-kvó)
• Yakut: статус-кво (status-kvo)

Further reading

• status quo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• status quo ante bellum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstaːtʏs ˈkʋoː/

• Audio:

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Noun

status quo m (plural status quo's)

1. status quo

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin status quo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus ˈkfɔ/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

status quo n (indeclinable)

1. status quo (state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs)

Further reading

• status quo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• status quo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• estatu quo, estatus quo, statu quo

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈta.tus ˈkwo/, /isˈta.tus ˈkwɔ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈta.tus ˈkwo/, /isˈta.tus ˈkwɔ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈta.tuʃ ˈkwo/, /iʃˈta.tuʃ ˈkwɔ/

Noun

status quo m (invariable)

1. status quo (the existing state of things)