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Latin
Etymology
Action noun from quaerō. Compare with quaesītus.
Noun
quaestus m (genitive quaestūs); fourth declension
- gain, acquisition, profit, advantage
- (figuratively) occupation, employment, job
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
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