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Latin
Etymology
From quaestiō + -cula.
Pronunciation
Noun
quaestiuncula f (genitive quaestiunculae); first declension
- diminutive of quaestiō (“a little question, a trifling question”)
55 BCE,
Cicero,
De Oratore 1.102:
- ...alicui Graeculo otioso et loquaci et fortasse docto atque erudito quaestiunculam, de qua meo arbitratu loquar, ponitis?
- Now you ask me a trivial little question, which I am to discuss according to my judgement, as though I were some garrulous little Greek with too much free time, and perhaps learned and educated?
Declension
First-declension noun.
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