queror

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Ido

Verb

queror

  1. future infinitive of querar

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to puff, sigh”), in which case it is cognate with English quarrel, wheeze, Icelandic hvæsa (“to hiss”) and Sanskrit श्वसिति (śvasiti, “to puff”), Pashto ساه (sāh, “breath, blow, puff, soul, spirit, essence”), Baluchi ساہ (sáh, “breath, blow, essence”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

queror (present infinitive querī, perfect active questus sum); third conjugation, deponent

  1. to complain, lament, bewail
    Synonyms: conqueror, dēplōrō, lūgeō, ingemō, gemō, fremō, plōrō, plangō, fleō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.677:
      “Quid prīmum dēserta querar?”
      “What shall I lament first, have been forsaken?”
  2. to be indignant
    Synonyms: indignor, īrāscor, obīrāscor, furō, saeviō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of queror (third conjugation, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present queror quereris,
querere 		queritur querimur queriminī queruntur
imperfect querēbar querēbāris,
querēbāre 		querēbātur querēbāmur querēbāminī querēbantur
future querar querēris,
querēre 		querētur querēmur querēminī querentur
perfect questus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect questus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect questus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present querar querāris,
querāre 		querātur querāmur querāminī querantur
imperfect quererer quererēris,
quererēre 		quererētur quererēmur quererēminī quererentur
perfect questus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect questus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — querere — — queriminī —
future — queritor queritor — — queruntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives querī questum esse questūrum esse — — —
participles querēns questus questūrus — — querendus,
querundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
querendī querendō querendum querendō questum questū

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “queror, -ī ‘to complain, protest’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 507

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