questura

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin quaestūra.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kweˈstu.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: que‧stù‧ra

NounEdit

questura f (plural questure)

  1. police force
  2. police headquarters

DescendantsEdit

  • Neapolitan: quistùra, chestura

ReferencesEdit

  • questura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

LatinEdit

ParticipleEdit

questūra

  1. inflection of questūrus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

ParticipleEdit

questūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of questūrus