The corpus record — Latin

quaestuarius

quaestuarius · adj

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Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

quaestŭārĭus — Lewis & Short

quaestŭārĭus, a, um, adj.quaestus,

I of or belonging to gain, money-making, mercenary (post-Aug.): quaestuaria mancipia, Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 2: mulier, a prostitute for hire, ib. 23, 2, 43, § 7: majestas, Tert. Apol. 13.—

II Subst.: quaestuaria, ae, f., a prostitute: ex adulterā in quaestuariam versa, Sen. Ben. 6, 32, 1.

In the wild

quaestuariam Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 2.12
quaestuaria Tertullian, Apologeticum 13.6
quaestuariam Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 2.12
quaestuariam Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.32.1

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.