quaesoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Related to quaerō. Perhaps for *quaessō, desiderative formation with Proto-Indo-European *-(h₁)seti (as in vīsō).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷae̯.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷɛː.s̬o]

動詞

quaesō (present infinitive quaesere, perfect active quaesīvī or quaesiī, supine quaesītum); third conjugation

1. to beg or ask (for) [with ut and subjunctive]

   Synonyms: exposcō, flagitō, efflagitō, exigō, rogō, ērogō, exorō, precor, petō, expetō, prehensō

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 2.2.1:

     Mirumst me ut redeam te opere tanto quaesere, […]

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   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 3.466–467:

     Quaeso hercle ut liceat, pace quod fiat tua,
     dare huic quae volumu’, convenire et conloqui.

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   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Pro Rabirio perduellonis reo 38:

     Dixi ad id tempus quod mihi a tribuno pl. praestitutum est; a vobis peto quaesoque ut hanc meam defensionem pro amici periculo fidelem, pro rei publicae salute consularem putetis.

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 28.39:

     Id uti permittatis quaesumus, utique, si uobis ita uidetur, quae nobis imperatores uestri commoda tribuerunt, ea rata atque perpetua auctoritate vestra faciatis.

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2. (Old Latin, only attested in glosses) to seek

   Synonyms: inquīrō, conquīrō, spectō, scrūtor, circumspiciō, quaerō, requīrō

   • 2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 258; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:

     Quaeso, ut significat idem, quod rogo, ita quaesere ponitur ab antiquis pro quaerere, ut est apud Ennium I. II.: "Ostia munita est; idem loca navibus pulchris mundo† facit, nautisque mari quaesentibus vitam." et in Chresponte†: "ducit me uxorem liberorum sibi quaesendum gratia." et in Andromeda: "liberum quaesendum causa familiae matrem tuae."

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   • c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 61, (fragments from Plautius' Amphithryo):

     quaese adveniente morbo medicari tibi.

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使用する際の注意点

The verb is classically only used in the first person present active indicative: quaesō or quaesumus. Other attested forms listed in the Oxford Latin Dictionary are:

• quaesit, third person singular present active indicative
• quaesitur, third person singular present passive
• quaesere, present active infinitive
• quaesentibus, dative or ablative plural of *quaesens, present active participle
• quaesendum, inflected form of *quaesendus, future passive participle (gerundive)

Conjugation

間投詞

quaesō (plural quaesumus)

1. please (of one person entreating)

   Near-synonyms: amābō, obsecrō

   Potesne mihi succurrere, quaesō? ― Can you help me please?

   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 22–24:

     Curre intro atque ecferto aquam.
     — Nihil aquam moror, quiescat malo. Ne interveneris,
     quaeso, dum resipiscit.

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参考

参照

• “quaeso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaeso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quaeso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.