quaestio

From quaerō +‎ -tiō. Compare with later quaesītiō.

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

quaestiō f (genitive quaestiōnis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• “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^[1], 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^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016