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Latin
Etymology
From conquaerō, alternative form of conquīrō (“seek for, collect” in Classical Latin; “acquire”, hence ultimately “conquer” in Vulgar and Medieval Latin), + -tus.
Noun
conquaestus m (genitive conquaestūs); fourth declension (Medieval Latin)
- acquisition (of property by other means than inheritance)
- an acquisition, a thing acquired
- (by extension) conquest
- wealth
- revenue
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “conquīrere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1058
- conquaestus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “conquaestus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “conquisitus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 251–2