queror

Ido

Verb

queror

1. future infinitive of querar

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to puff, sigh”), in which case it is cognate with English quarrel, wheeze, Icelandic hvæsa (“to hiss”) and Sanskrit श्वसिति (śvasiti, “to puff”), Pashto ساه (sāh, “breath, blow, puff, soul, spirit, essence”), Baluchi ساہ (sáh, “breath, blow, essence”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷe.ror/, [ˈkʷɛrɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwe.ror/, [ˈkwɛːror]

Verb

queror (present infinitive querī, perfect active questus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. to complain, lament, bewail

   Synonyms: conqueror, dēplōrō, lūgeō, ingemō, gemō, fremō, plōrō, plangō, fleō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.677:

     “Quid prīmum dēserta querar?”

     “What shall I lament first, [now that I] have been forsaken?”

2. to be indignant

   Synonyms: indignor, īrāscor, obīrāscor, furō, saeviō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of queror (third conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	queror	quereris, querere	queritur	querimur	queriminī	queruntur
	imperfect	querēbar	querēbāris, querēbāre	querēbātur	querēbāmur	querēbāminī	querēbantur
	future	querar	querēris, querēre	querētur	querēmur	querēminī	querentur
	perfect	questus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	questus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	questus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	querar	querāris, querāre	querātur	querāmur	querāminī	querantur
	imperfect	quererer	quererēris, quererēre	quererētur	quererēmur	quererēminī	quererentur
	perfect	questus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	questus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	querere	—	—	queriminī	—
	future	—	queritor	queritor	—	—	queruntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		querī	questum esse	questūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		querēns	questus	questūrus	—	—	querendus, querundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		querendī	querendō	querendum	querendō	questum	questū

Derived terms

• conqueror
• querēlla
• queribundus
• querimōnia
• queritor
• querulus
• questus

Further reading

• “queror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “queror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• queror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 631