Word.ws English Dictionary

stati quo

stati quo is the plural of status quo.

Meaning of status quo

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.
    • “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...2015 July 27, Noah Berlatsky, “NK Jemisin: the fantasy writer upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'”, in The Guardian

Origin of stati quo

Erroneously formed by treating Latin status as a masculine noun of the second declension, in which, in the nominative case, the singular form ends in -us and the plural form in -i. Status is a fourth-declension noun, the plural of which is statūs.

Questions about stati quo

What is stati quo the plural of?
Stati quo is the plural of status quo.

Words near stati quo in the dictionary

  1. stathmokinetic
  2. stathmos
  3. Stathopoulos
  4. Stathopouloses
  5. stati
  6. stati quo
  7. Statia
  8. Statian
  9. Statians
  10. static
  11. static binding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stati quo (page history and authors); status quo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stati quo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stati_quo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.