quizá

• quizais
• quizás
• quizaves
• cecais
• quezá

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: qui‧zá

quizá

1. perhaps, maybe

   Synonyms: acaso, tal vez, se cadra, seica, disque

Inherited from Old Spanish quiçab, from qui sabe (“who knows”), ultimately from the Vulgar Latin expression qui sapit (“who knows”). Compare Italian chissà, Portuguese quiçá, and Catalan quissà.

• IPA^(key): /kiˈθa/ [kiˈθa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kiˈsa/ [kiˈsa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: qui‧zá

quizá

1. perhaps, maybe

   Synonyms: quizás, tal vez

See quizás.

• “quizá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024