queste
See also: quèste
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin (ec)cu(m) istae (nominative feminine plural of iste).
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
queste
Pronoun edit
queste
Latin edit
Participle edit
queste
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Anglo-Norman queste.
Noun edit
queste
- Alternative form of quest
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English *cwiss.
Noun edit
queste
- Alternative form of quiste
Etymology 3 edit
From Old French quester.
Verb edit
queste
- Alternative form of questen
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French queste.
Noun edit
queste f (plural questes)
Descendants edit
- French: quête
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quaesta, from quaesita, from quaesitus. Compare querre.
Noun edit
queste oblique singular, f (oblique plural questes, nominative singular queste, nominative plural questes)
- search; act, instance of searching
Descendants edit
- → English: quest
- Middle French: queste
- French: quête
- → Middle High German: queste
- German: Quest
- → Middle Irish: coiste, cúaiste
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (queste)
- queste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub