quaestioとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷae̯s.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷɛs.ti.o]

名詞

quaestiō f (genitive quaestiōnis); third declension

1. problem
2. seeking, search

   esse in quaestione alicui ― to be missing to someone, to be sought by someone

   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus II.ii.663:

     Sed vide sis ne in quaestione sis, quando arcessam, mihi.

     But please see to it that you're not missing to me when I come to fetch you.
     (This phrase could also more idiomatically be understood as "please make sure I don't have to go looking for you when I come to fetch you.")

3. inquiry, investigation, questioning, question

   quaestiō aeterna ― an eternal question

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.18:

     […] tū nōn sōlum ad neglegendās lēgēs et quaestiōnēs, vērum etiam ad ēvertendās perfringendāsque valuistī.

     […] you have had the power not only for neglecting laws and investigations, but also for overthrowing and shattering them.

4. inquisition

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “quaestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quaestio", 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)
• “quaestio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • systematic, scientific discussion: disputatio, quaestio
    
  • to propose a subject of debate, put a question: quaestionem ponere, proponere
    
  • to get a question submitted to one: quaestionem poscere (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • at this point the question arises: hoc loco exsistit quaestio, quaeritur
    
  • it is a difficult point, disputed question: magna quaestio est (followed by an indirect question)
    
  • to decide, determine a question: quaestionem solvere
    
  • the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit
    
  • the standing commissions of inquiry: quaestiones perpetuae (Brut. 27. 106)
    
  • to examine a person, a matter: quaestionem habere de aliquo, de aliqua re or in aliquem
    
  • to preside over an inquiry: quaestioni praeesse
    
• “quaestio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaestio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016