qui pro quo

See also: quiproquo, quiproquó, and quiproquò

Italian

Noun

qui pro quo m (invariable)

1. misunderstanding

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin quid prō quō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kfi prɔ ˈkfɔ/
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

qui pro quo n (indeclinable)

1. (literary) amusing misunderstanding resulting from taking someone for another person or misunderstanding someone's words

Further reading

• “qui pro quo”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “qui pro quo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkwi ˌpɾo ˈkwo/ [ˌkwi ˌpɾo ˈkwo]
• Syllabification: qui pro quo

Noun

quid pro quo m (plural qui pro quo)

1. nonstandard form of quid pro quo

Further reading

• “quid pro quo”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN