quaestura Latin · revision 31520

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la quaerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷae̯sˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷesˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quaestūra''' ''f'' (genitive quaestūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[quaestor]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ūra]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) The office-holder's title is from [[quaerō|t=to seek, inquire]],^(Köbler 2010) and de Vaan notes that the Oscan and Umbrian words for quaestor are loans from Latin, with [[xum|kvestretie|t=in the quaestorship]] derived from Umbrian ⟨kvestur⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) The origin of ⟨quaerō⟩ is disputed; de Vaan reports Nussbaum's proposal of a root [[ine-pro|*kʷeh₂-|t=to acquire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who calls the quaestorship the first step of office.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the rank and office of a quaestor, the lowest office in the senatorial career, and a particular term of that office, as Cicero's remark that not a word was reported from someone's quaestorship in Spain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero and Tacitus speak of standing for the quaestorship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it took new senses from ⟨quaerere⟩, a vicarage and a tallage, a kind of tax.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the quaestorship as the first step of office.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of standing for the office.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of a [[quaestor]], [[m|en|quaestorship]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A particular term as quaestor.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A vicarage.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|tallage]], tax.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quaestor]]

+ * [[quaerō]]

+ * [[quaestiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}