status quo – English noun declension

English noun forms of status quo

Noun: status quo
Singularstatus quo
Pluralstatus quos

Sample Sentences

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

Nouns inflected like status quo

status quo,

Etymology

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