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Where does “quaesitor” come from?

quaesitor (Latin) comes from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

quaesitor (Latin): seeker, searcher; investigator; second-person...

Definitions

  1. seeker, searcher; investigator; second-person...

Ancestry of “quaesitor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-tor-er
2Proto-Italic-tōr—
3Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
4Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “quaesitor”

  • quaestor
  • quaestorship
  • quaestor
  • κουαίστωρ
  • questor
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