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questor

questor is the alternative spelling of quaestor.

Meaning of quaestor

Noun

quaestor (plural quaestors)

  1. (historical) An ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
    • Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508.1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 85, footnote 2
  2. (historical) The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
  3. (historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.

Forms of questor

pluralquestors

Words formed from questor

Questions about questor

What is questor the alternative spelling of?
Questor is the alternative spelling of quaestor.

Words near questor in the dictionary

  1. questlines
  2. questman
  3. questmen
  4. questmonger
  5. questmongers
  6. questor
  7. questorial
  8. questors
  9. questorship
  10. questorships
  11. questrist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: questor (page history and authors); quaestor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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