quaestus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Action noun from quaerō. Compare with quaesītus.

Noun

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quaestus m (genitive quaestūs); fourth declension

  1. gain, acquisition, profit, advantage
  2. (figuratively) occupation, employment, job

Declension

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Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quaestus quaestūs
genitive quaestūs quaestuum
dative quaestuī quaestibus
accusative quaestum quaestūs
ablative quaestū quaestibus
vocative quaestus quaestūs

Descendants

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  • Portuguese: questa
  • Spanish: cuesta, cuestación

References

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  • quaestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quaestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quaestus 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)
  • quaestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make money: quaestum facere (Fam. 15. 14)
    • to make a profit out of something: quaestui aliquid habere (Off. 2. 3. 13)
    • to enrich oneself at the expense of the state: rem publicam quaestui habere