The corpus record — Latin

questio

questio · f

a complaining

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Where it lives

De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

questĭo — Lewis & Short

questĭo, ōnis, f.queror,

I a complaining, complaint: habebat enim flebile quiddam in questionibus aptumque ad misericordiam commovendam, Cic. Brut. 38, 142 Orell. (B. and K. ex conj. Lambin.: conquestionibus).

In the wild

questionibus Cicero, Brutus 142.p1
questione Cicero, De Inventione 2.83
questionis Cicero, Orator 135.p1
questionem Cicero, De Inventione 2.48

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.