queror

Ido

Verb

queror

  1. future infinitive of querar

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (to puff, sigh), in which case it is cognate with English quarrel, wheeze, Icelandic hvæsa (to hiss) and Sanskrit श्वसिति (śvasiti, to puff), Pashto ساه (sāh, breath, blow, puff, soul, spirit, essence), Baluchi ساہ (sáh, breath, blow, essence).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

queror (present infinitive querī, perfect active questus sum); third conjugation, deponent

  1. to complain, lament, bewail
    Synonyms: conqueror, dēplōrō, lūgeō, ingemō, gemō, fremō, plōrō, plangō, fleō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.677:
      “Quid prīmum dēserta querar?”
      “What shall I lament first, [now that I] have been forsaken?”
  2. to be indignant
    Synonyms: indignor, īrāscor, obīrāscor, furō, saeviō

Conjugation

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References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “queror, -ī ‘to complain, protest’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 507

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