| 1 | Middle English | quest | A legal inquest or investigation; a session of... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | queste | search; act, instance of searching |
| 3 | Latin | quaesta | tribute, tax, inquiry, search |
| 4 | Latin | quaesita | nominative feminine singular of quaesītus;... |
| 5 | Latin | quaesitus | sought for, having been sought for; asked, having... |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |