The corpus record — Latin

quaesitio

quaesitio · f

a seeking

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Where it lives

Casina 1 · 1.29/10k

What it meant

quaesītĭo — Lewis & Short

quaesītĭo, ōnis, f.quaero,

I a seeking or searching after (post-Aug.).

I In gen.: Psyche quaesitioni Cupidinis intenta, populos circuibat, App. M. 5, p. 171, 8.—

II In partic., a questioning by torture, the question, inquisition: cum postero ad quaesitionem retraheretur, proripuit se custodibus, Tac. A. 4, 45; Inscr. Bertol. Antiq. Aquilei. p. 300, n. 419.

In the wild

quaesitione Plautus, Casina 3.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.