Latin edit

Etymology edit

From quaesītum +‎ -tor, where the ī-perfect seems to be original. Compare with quaestor, from the present stem or from quaesō.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

quaesītor m (genitive quaesītōris); third declension

  1. seeker, searcher
  2. investigator

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative quaesītor quaesītōrēs
Genitive quaesītōris quaesītōrum
Dative quaesītōrī quaesītōribus
Accusative quaesītōrem quaesītōrēs
Ablative quaesītōre quaesītōribus
Vocative quaesītor quaesītōrēs

Verb edit

quaesitor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of quaesō

References edit

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “quaerō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 503

Further reading edit

  • quaesitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quaesitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quaesitor 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)
  • quaesitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • quaesitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quaesitor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016