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vexata quaestio

vexata quaestio noun: a vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.

Noun

vexata quaestio (plural vexatae quaestiones)

  1. A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
    • On entering upon this question, he states it to be one of great difficulty—a vexata quaestio as it were, and one which had at all times much divided, and at the time he wrote, still continued to divide the opinions of great jurists.1819, Hansard, column 1275
    • It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent.1991, Carmen Pensado, “How was Leonese Vulgar Latin Read?”, in Roger Wright, editor, Latin and the Roman Languages in the Middle Ages, page 190

Forms of vexata quaestio

pluralvexatae quaestiones
alternative formquaestio vexata
alternative formvexata quæstio

Origin of vexata quaestio

Learned borrowing from Latin vexāta quaestiō.

Questions about vexata quaestio

What does vexata quaestio mean?
Vexata quaestio means a vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
What part of speech is vexata quaestio?
Vexata quaestio is a noun.
What is the plural of vexata quaestio?
The plural of vexata quaestio is vexatae quaestiones.

Words near vexata quaestio in the dictionary

  1. vewy
  2. vex
  3. vexable
  4. VEXAS
  5. VEXAS syndrome
  6. vexata quaestio
  7. vexation
  8. vexations
  9. vexatious
  10. vexatiously
  11. vexatiousness

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