quaestor

• quæstor
• questor

From Middle English questor, from Latin quaestor, from an old participle form of quaerō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkwiːstə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwistɚ/

quaestor (plural quaestors)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
   • 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 85, footnote 2:

     Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508.

2. (historical) The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
3. (historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.

• equators, quorates

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quaestor m (plural quaestoren or quaestors or quaestores, diminutive quaestortje n, feminine quaestrix)

1. treasurer

• (treasurer): penningmeester, schatbewaarder, thesaurier

A contraction from quaesītor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷae̯s.tor/, [ˈkʷae̯s.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɛs.tor/

quaestor m (genitive quaestōris); third declension

1. quaestor
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.

     Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.

Third declension.

• quaestor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quaestor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaestor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quaestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• quaestor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• quaestor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin