kwesta

See also: kwestą

Polish

kwesta

Alternative forms

• chwésta (Kuyavia)
• chwesta (Przemyśl)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin questa. Compare Italian questua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfɛs.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Syllabification: kwes‧ta

Noun

kwesta f

1. collection, fundraising (public fundraising for a charitable cause)
2. collection (money collected during such a fundraising)
3. (obsolete, agriculture) collection (collection of agricultural produce for donation to the monastery, customarily carried out in the autumn after the harvest)

Declension

Declension of kwesta

	singular	plural
nominative	kwesta	kwesty
genitive	kwesty	kwest
dative	kweście	kwestom
accusative	kwestę	kwesty
instrumental	kwestą	kwestami
locative	kweście	kwestach
vocative	kwesto	kwesty

Derived terms

(nouns):

• kwestarka
• kwestarz

(verbs):

• kwestować impf

Related terms

(adjectives):

• kwestarski

(nouns):

• kwestarstwo

Further reading

• kwesta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kwesta in Polish dictionaries at PWN