Lemma 1quaero, quaerere, quaesivi, quaesitus
verb
to search for, seek, strive for; to obtain; to ask, inquire, demandMorphology
present indicative active 1st singularquaer + o · regular
Lewis & Short
quaero, ĕre, sĭi, sītum, 3, to seek.
: aliquem, Enn. (Ann. 43 Vahl.)
To seek to get or procure, to seek or search for a thing. —
, to get, procure, obtain, acquire a thing.
To seek for something missing, to miss.
To ask, desire, with ut and
, to seek, to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing, A, 1. — With
To look for, seek to gain any thing; to get, acquire, obtain, procure.
Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, to demand, need, require, = requirere.
To seek to learn from any one; to ask, inquire, interrogate (: interrogo, percontor).
With ab.
With de.
With ex.
With a rel.-clause.
To desire.
With ().
, of animals, plants, , to desire, prefer, seek, praef. §.
To examine or inquire into judicially, to investigate, institute an investigation; with (rare): (4), 36. — With de and
: si quaeris, si quaerimus (, if we, or you, look well into the matter; if we, or you, would know the truth), to say the truth, in fact, to speak honestly; noli quaerere or quid quaeris? in short, in one word. — Hence, quaesītus, a, um, P. a., sought out.
In a good sense, select, special, extraordinary (mostly ): epulae quaesitissumae, Sall. ( Dietsch); —
In a bad sense ( to what is natural), far-fetched, studied, affected, assumed ().
: quaesītum, i,
A question ().
A question as a rhetorical figure, =.