Latin

Noun

quaestus m ‎(genitive quaestūs); fourth declension

1. gain, acquisition, profit, advantage

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Derived terms

• quaestio

Descendants

• Portuguese: questa
• Spanish: cuesta, cuestación

References

• quaestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quaestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• QUAESTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quaestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make money: quaestum facere (Fam. 15. 14)
    
  • to make a profit out of something: quaestui aliquid habere (Off. 2. 3. 13)
    
  • to enrich oneself at the expense of the state: rem publicam quaestui habere