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quaero
quaero
Latin
Alternative forms
- (without rhotacism of the stem consonant): quaesō
Verb
quaerō (present infinitive quaerere, perfect active quaesīvī, supine quaesītum); third conjugation
- I seek, look for
- Quaerendo invenietis
- By seeking ye shall find.
- Quaerite Dominum
- Seek ye the Lord
- Quaerendo invenietis
- I ask, question, inquire.
- I strive for; endeavor; seek to obtain
- I miss, lack
- I desire, require
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References
- quaero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quaero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quæro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, pages 1,288–9.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
- to be guided by ambition: laudem, gloriam quaerere
- a theme, subject proposed for discussion: id quod quaerimus (quaeritur)
- at this point the question arises: hoc loco exsistit quaestio, quaeritur
- the question now is..: nunc id quaeritur, agitur
- the question at issue: res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
- to give the etymological explanation of words: nomina enodare or verborum origines quaerere, indagare
- to earn a livelihood by something: victum aliqua re quaerere
- to court popularity: gratiam populi quaerere
- to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
- to hold an inquiry into a matter: quaerere aliquid or de aliqua re
- to have a person tortured: quaerere tormentis de aliquo
- to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
- to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus
- to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
- “quaerō” on page 1,533 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- “quaerere” on page 877 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 503