quia

Borrowed from Latin quia (“because”).

quia (not comparable)

1. (Lutheranism) Relating to the belief that the Book of Concord is authoritative because it faithfully describes the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible.

• quatenus

quia (not comparable)

1. In a quia manner.

• qua (Late Latin, manuscripts and inscriptions)^[1]

Old neuter plural accusative case of quis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷih₂. Corresponds both formally and functionally to Megara Ancient Greek σᾰ́ (sá, “what?”), and functionally to ὅτι (hóti); this and other evidence point to the Greek origin of the use of quia as a subordinator, in contrast to quod where there's stronger evidence for a native development.^[2][3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷi.a/, [ˈkʷiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwi.a/, [ˈkwiːä]

quia

1. because, due to the fact that, for
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Tobiae.1.23:

     Tobias vero cum filio suo et cum uxore fugiens nudus latuit quia multi diligebant eum

     But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Tobiae.3.19:

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me

     And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,

   • c. 1135 – 1153, Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermōnēs super Cantica Canticōrum 84.6:

     Nōn timeō, quia amō.

     I am not afraid because I love.

2. (Late Latin, subordinator) (the fact) that
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas.1.58:

     et audierunt vicini et cognati eius quia magnificavit Dominus misericordiam suam cum illa et congratulabantur ei

     Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

• Usually tells of the determining reason, while quoniam (“since”) introduces any causal circumstance.
• Differs from the general-purpose subordinator quod in being more explicitly causal.

• quianam

• cur
• nam

All meaning 'because', but with a phonetic shape reflecting a crossing with quam 'how':^[4]

• Palmer, L.R. 1906. The Latin language. London: Faber and Faber.
• Väänänen, Veikko. 1981. Introduction au latin vulgaire. Paris: Klincksieck.

• “quia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From ¡qué ha (de ser)!.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkja/ [ˈkja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: quia

¡quia!

1. (Spain) denotes incredulity

• “quia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16