quaestorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• quæstor
• questor

語源

From 中期英語 questor, from Latin quaestor, from an old participle form of quaerō.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkwiːstə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkwistɚ/
• 韻: -iːstə(ɹ)

名詞

quaestor (plural quaestors)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
   • 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 85, footnote 2:

     Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508.

2. (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.
3. (historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.

派生語

アナグラム

• equators, quorates

語源

From quaerō +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷae̯s.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷɛs.tor]

名詞

quaestor m (genitive quaestōris); third declension

1. quaestor

   Hypernym: magistrātus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     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.

     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.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “quaerō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 503

Further reading

• “quaestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quaestor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quaestor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• quaestor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “quaestor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin