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Quiproquo is a Latin word of origin E (Latin medieval). It would come from quid pro quod (Latin traditional legal meaning “which for what”) “thing in the place of another”; the expression belonged at the beginning with the pharmaceutical vocabulary: a drug taken or given to the place of another.

The word indicates, with the direct direction, a misunderstanding in which one takes a person for another. This technique is very much used with the Théâtre (in the light comedy, parts of Molière) to bring comic situations. One can possibly see a bond with continuation of questions of the Roman law (principle of Quintilien: “Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando” -- Who, what, where, by which means, why, how, when?

By extension one speaks about misunderstanding for a dialog which is articulated around a confusion (error on a person or a subject not named).

See too

  • Paronym
  • Janotisme

Famous misunderstandings

External bonds

  • '' legal Quiproquo '' or '' Quiproquo ''

  • paronym
  • '' misunderstanding and management ''

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