Quaestor Definition

kwĕstər, kwēstər
noun
An official of ancient Rome, with various, chiefly financial, duties.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Quaestor

Noun

Singular:
quaestor
Plural:
quaestors

Origin of Quaestor

  • Middle English questor from Latin quaestor from quaestus obsolete past participle of quaerere to inquire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin quaestor, from an old participle form of quaero.

    From Wiktionary

Quaestor Sentence Examples

  • The dictator alone among military commanders had no quaestor, because a quaestor would have been a limitation to his powers.

  • The duties of the military quaestor, like those of the treasury quaestor, were primarily financial.

  • Bocchus again made overtures to the Romans, and after an interview with Sulla, who was Marius's quaestor at that time, sent ambassadors to Rome.

  • The booty taken in war was not necessarily under the control of the quaestor, but was dealt with, especially in later times, by inferior officers called praefecti fabrum.

  • Unlike the urban quaestor, the military quaestor possessed not a criminal but a civil jurisdiction corresponding to that of the aediles at Rome.

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