quaestio

Latin

Etymology

From quaerō +‎ -tiō. Compare with later quaesītiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷae̯s.ti.oː/, [ˈkʷäe̯s̠t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwes.ti.o/, [ˈkwɛst̪io]

Noun

quaestiō f (genitive quaestiōnis); third declension

1. problem
2. seeking
3. inquiry, investigation, questioning, question
4. inquisition

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quaestiō	quaestiōnēs
genitive	quaestiōnis	quaestiōnum
dative	quaestiōnī	quaestiōnibus
accusative	quaestiōnem	quaestiōnēs
ablative	quaestiōne	quaestiōnibus
vocative	quaestiō	quaestiōnēs

Derived terms

• quaestiōnārius
• quaestiōnō
• vēxāta quaestiō

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: qüestió
• → Dutch: kwestie
• → Ido: questiono
• → Italian: questione
• → Old French: question
  • → Middle English: questioun, question, questiun, questyon, questyounn, qwestyon, qwestioun
    • English: question
    • Scots: quaisten, quastin
    • → Welsh: cwestiwn
  • French: question
    • → Romanian: chestie, chestiune
  • Norman: tchestchion (Jersey)
• → Old Irish: ceist
  • Irish: ceist
  • Manx: keisht
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceist
• → Portuguese: questão
• → Sicilian: custioni, quistioni
• → Spanish: cuestión
• → Polish: kwestia

References

• “quaestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaestio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quaestio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • systematic, scientific discussion: disputatio, quaestio
    
  • to propose a subject of debate, put a question: quaestionem ponere, proponere
    
  • to get a question submitted to one: quaestionem poscere (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • at this point the question arises: hoc loco exsistit quaestio, quaeritur
    
  • it is a difficult point, disputed question: magna quaestio est (followed by an indirect question)
    
  • to decide, determine a question: quaestionem solvere
    
  • the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit
    
  • the standing commissions of inquiry: quaestiones perpetuae (Brut. 27. 106)
    
  • to examine a person, a matter: quaestionem habere de aliquo, de aliqua re or in aliquem
    
  • to preside over an inquiry: quaestioni praeesse
    
• “quaestio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaestio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016