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quaestu

quaestu is a Latin form of quaestus, meaning “profit, gain; trade, way of making money”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.6: … e provinciam, quo facile excurrant, ubi libenter negotium gerant; quos illa partim mercibus suppeditandis cum quaestu compendioque dimittit, partim retinet, ut arare, ut pascere, ut negotiari libeat, ut denique sedes ac domicil …

All forms of quaestus (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.