Where does “questura” come from?

questura (Italian) comes from Latin quaestūra, from Latin quaestor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

questura (Italian): police force

Definitions

  1. police force

Ancestry of “questura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinquaestūraquaestorship (office of a quaestor)
2Latinquaestorquaestor
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “questura”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin quaestor →