status quo

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwəʊ/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌstætəs ˈkwoʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪtəs ˈkwoʊ/

status quo (plural status quos)

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:

     “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.”

• status in quo
• status quo ante

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌstaːtʏs ˈkʋoː/

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status quo m (plural status quo's)

1. status quo

Borrowed from Latin status quo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus kfɔ/

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status quo n (indeclinable)

1. status quo

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

• estatu quo, estatus quo, statu quo

status quo m (invariable)

1. status quo (the existing state of things)