different between quest vs queso

English

Etymology

From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?st/, enPR: kw?st
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

quest (plural quests)

1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
2. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

3. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

   • Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.

4. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
5. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 46"

     To 'cide this title is impanneled
     A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
     And by their verdict is determined
     The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]

Derived terms

• sidequest

Translations

Verb

quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)

1. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2. To search for; to examine.
   • 1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk

     Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.

3. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• queste, qwest, qwhest

Etymology

Partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste, and partly from their source, Latin quaesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?st(?)/

Noun

quest (plural questes)

1. (Late Middle English) A legal inquest or investigation; a session of court.
2. (Late Middle English) A group or body of jurors
3. (rare) A body of judges or other individuals commissioned to make a decision or verdict
4. (rare) The decision or verdict reached by such a body of judges.
5. (rare) A quest, mission, or search.
   1. (rare) The finding of prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
   2. (rare, Late Middle English) The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
6. (rare, Late Middle English) A petition or asking.

Related terms

• conquest
• enquest
• questen
• questioun
• questor
• request

Descendants

• English: quest
• Scots: quest

References

• “quest(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Romagnol

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.

Pronoun

quest (feminine singular questa)

1. this one, this

   Quest l'è un mond zneno, e nost mond.

   This is a small world, our world.

   Questa l'è una cittadina bela.

   This is a beautiful city.

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.

Pronoun

quest

1. this

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine. Doublet of cheese.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ke?so?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ke?s??/
• Rhymes: -e?s??

Noun

queso (uncountable)

1. Melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce.

Derived terms

• chili con queso

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin c?seum, accusative of c?seus. Cognate with Old Leonese keso and Old Portuguese queijo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ke.zo]

Noun

queso m (plural quesos)

1. cheese
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12v.

     Et ?i la fregan con la leche. lo q? ende ?ale, quaia toda la leche ?obre q? la pongan ¬ por ende los daq?lla tierra u?an della en ?us q?sos. ¬ en toda otra co?a de leche q? quieré quaiar.

     And if they wash it with milk, what results from it curdles the milk into which it is put, and so the people of that land use it in their cheeses, or in any other dairy thing they wish to curdle.

Descendants

• Ladino: kézo
• Spanish: queso (see there for further descendants)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish queso, from Latin c?seus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?keso/, [?ke.so]

Noun

queso m (plural quesos)

1. cheese

   Synonym: formaje

2. (Spain, colloquial) foot

Derived terms

(diminutive quesillo or quesito or quesín)

Related terms

• caseoso
• quesadilla
• quesero, quesera
• requesón

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Further reading

• “queso” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.