quaestus

quaestus

Latin

Etymology

Action noun from quaerō. Compare with quaesītus.

Noun

quaestus m (genitive quaestūs); fourth declension

1. gain, acquisition, profit, advantage
2. (figuratively) occupation, employment, job

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quaestus	quaestūs
Genitive	quaestūs	quaestuum
Dative	quaestuī	quaestibus
Accusative	quaestum	quaestūs
Ablative	quaestū	quaestibus
Vocative	quaestus	quaestūs

Descendants

• Portuguese: questa
• Spanish: cuesta, cuestación

References

• “quaestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaestus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quaestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make money: quaestum facere (Fam. 15. 14)
    
  • to make a profit out of something: quaestui aliquid habere (Off. 2. 3. 13)
    
  • to enrich oneself at the expense of the state: rem publicam quaestui habere