quaestione

quaestione is a Latin form of quaestio, meaning “inquiry, investigation; question; court, trial”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 129 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.32.2: Caesar explorata re quaestione captivorum, si qui ad eos Eburones ex fuga convenissent, ad se ut reducerentur, imperavit; si ita fecissent, fines eorum se violaturum negavit.

Plautus, Truculentus 4.3.836: Callicles, vide in quaéstione ne facias iniuriam:

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.8: Quaestione igitur per multiplices dilatata fortunas, cum ambigerentur quaedam, non nulla levius actitata constaret, post …

All forms of quaestio (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.