different between quaestor vs quaestorship

English

Alternative forms

• quæstor
• questor

Etymology

From Middle English questor, from Latin quaestor, from an old participle form of quaer?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kwi?st?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kwist?/

Noun

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• equators, quorates

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

quaestor m (plural quaestoren or quaestors or quaestores, diminutive quaestortje n, feminine quaestrix)

1. treasurer

Synonyms

• (treasurer): penningmeester, schatbewaarder, thesaurier

Latin

Etymology

For Proto-Italic *kwais-t?r, as quaer? +? -tor.

Alternative forms

• quaistor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?ae?s.tor/, [?k?äe?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kwes.tor/, [?kw?st??r]

Noun

quaestor m (genitive quaest?ris); third declension

1. quaestor

   Hypernym: magistr?tus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• quaest?ra

Descendants

• ?? Faliscan: cuestod (nom.sg.)
• ? Marsian: qestur (nom.pl.)
• ? Oscan: kvaísstur (nom.sg.), kvaízstur, ????????
• ? Umbrian: kvestur (nom.sg.), ? kvestretie

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “quaer?”, 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quaestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• quaestor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], 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

English

Etymology

quaestor +? -ship

Noun

quaestorship (usually uncountable, plural quaestorships)

1. The office or status of quaestor.