See quaestor on Wiktionary
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"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Faliscan translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
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"ref": "1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 85, footnote 2",
"text": "Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508."
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"(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."
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"(historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences."
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkwistɚ/",
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"General-American"
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},
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{
"word": "quæstor"
},
{
"word": "questor"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kvestor",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "квестор"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "qüestor"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvæstor"
},
{
"code": "xfa",
"lang": "Faliscan",
"roman": "cuestod",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"word": "𐌂𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌏𐌃"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"word": "kvestori"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "questeur"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuestor"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Quästor"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "koiaístōr",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κοιαίστωρ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"word": "quaestor"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"word": "questoro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "questore"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "quaestor"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "kvāestor",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "क्वाएस्तोर"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwestor"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chestor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kvéstor",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кве́стор"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvestor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvestor"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Ancient Roman official",
"word": "quaestor"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "kvāestor",
"sense": "Quaestor sacri palatii",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "क्वाएस्तोर"
}
],
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"quaestor"
],
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"word": "quaestūra"
}
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}
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"3": "kvaízstur",
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},
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "xum",
"2": "kvestur",
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"bor": "1",
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"der": "1",
"nolb": "1"
},
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}
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}
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"2": "itc-pro",
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},
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}
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"form": "quaestōris",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
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"table-tags"
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"nominative",
"singular"
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "quaestōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "quaestōrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "quaestōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "quaestōrem",
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "quaestōrēs",
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "quaestōre",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "quaestōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "quaestor",
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"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"form": "quaestōrēs",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
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"args": {
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{
"english": "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.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6",
"text": "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."
}
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"quaestor"
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[
"quaestor",
"#English"
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],
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"declension-3",
"masculine"
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}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkʷae̯s.tor/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkʷäe̯s̠t̪ɔr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkwes.tor/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkwɛst̪or]",
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}
],
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{
"word": "quaistor"
}
],
"word": "quaestor"
}
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