The corpus record — Latin

quaestura

quaestura · f

the office of quæstor

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Where it lives

Verus 2 · 9.72/10k
Severus 3 · 7.12/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 4 · 6.88/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
Pro Fonteio 2 · 4.41/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 5 · 4.3/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Tiberius 3 · 3.3/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quaestūra — Lewis & Short

quaestūra, ae, f.quaestor,

I the office of quæstor, the quæstorship (class.): quaestura primus gradus honoris, Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 11: quaesturam petere, id. Mur. 8, 18; Tac. A. 3, 29: ex quaesturā consulatum petere, Liv. 32, 7: gerere, Suet. Calig. 1. —

II Transf., the quæstor's chest: translator quaesturae, an embezzler of the public chest, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 152.

In the wild

quaesturam Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.9.2
quaesturae Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Hispaniensi 42
quaesturae Suetonius, Tiberius 42.2
quaestura Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 62
Quaesturam Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 3
quaesturam Historia Augusta, Severus 2

6 of 88 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quaestura (scan p. 364; entry #5731).

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