quaestorius Latin · revision 32746

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷae̯sˈtoː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷesˈtɔː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quaestōrius''' (feminine quaestōria, neuter quaestōrium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quaestor|-ius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives [[m|la|quaestor]] from [[quaero|alt=quaerō]] “to seek”; the Oscan and Umbrian words for quaestor, such as [[osc|kvaísstur]], are loans from Latin.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Verrines'' accuses a man of thinking two inheritances had come to him, one of them his quaestorian charge.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of a quaestor or his office, done as quaestor: Cicero speaks of a quaestor's duty and of a crime committed as quaestor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of a clerk in a quaestor's office, and ⟨porta quaestōria⟩ in Livy is a gate of the camp.^(OLD 2012) Of people it means of quaestorian rank, having held the office, as in Cicero's Gaius Sicinius, and also old enough for it.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian speaks of the age required for the quaestorship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a quaestor's office and rank.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the quaestorian gate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of the quaestorian age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a [[m|en|quaestor]] or his office; done as quaestor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Employed in a quaestor's office;^(OLD 2012) ''porta quaestōria'', a gate of a camp.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of quaestorian rank, having been quaestor; old enough to be quaestor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[quaestōrium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quaestor]]

+ * [[quaero|alt=quaerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}