vexata quaestio

English

Alternative forms

• quaestio vexata

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vexata quaestio.

Noun

vexata quaestio (plural vexatae quaestiones)

1. A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
   • 1819, Hansard‎^[1], column 1275:

     On entering upon this question, he states it to be one of great difficulty—a vexata quaestio as it were, and one which had at all times much divided, and at the time he wrote, still continued to divide the opinions of great jurists.

   • 1991, Carmen Pensado, “How was Leonese Vulgar Latin Read?”, in Roger Wright, editor, Latin and the Roman Languages in the Middle Ages, page 190:

     It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent.

   • 2010, Samantha Velluti, New Governance and the European Employment Strategy:

     European intervention in the social sphere—and annexed questions such as why, to what extent and in what way—has long been a vexata quaestio.

Latin

Etymology

From vexata (“vexed”) + quaestio (“question”).

Phrase

vēxāta quaestiō f (genitive vēxātae quaestiōnis); third declension

1. A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.

Declension

First-declension noun with a third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vēxāta quaestiō	vēxātae quaestiōnēs
genitive	vēxātae quaestiōnis	vēxātārum quaestiōnum
dative	vēxātae quaestiōnī	vēxātīs quaestiōnibus
accusative	vēxātam quaestiōnem	vēxātās quaestiōnēs
ablative	vēxātā quaestiōne	vēxātīs quaestiōnibus
vocative	vēxāta quaestiō	vēxātae quaestiōnēs