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From Middle English, from Old French qualité, from Latin qualitatem, accusative of qualitas, from qualis (“‘of what kind’”), from Proto-Indo-European pronominal base *kwo- (“‘who, how’”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiotes), “‘quality’”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poios), “‘of what nature, of what kind’”).