queste
See also: quèste
Italian
Etymology
From Latin (ec)cu(m) istae (nominative feminine plural of iste).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwes.te/
- Rhymes: -este
- Hyphenation: qué‧ste
Determiner
queste
- feminine plural of questo
Pronoun
queste
- feminine plural of questo
Latin
Participle
queste
- vocative masculine singular of questus
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
queste
- alternative form of quest
Etymology 2
Noun
queste
- alternative form of quiste
Etymology 3
Verb
queste
- alternative form of questen
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French queste.
Noun
queste f (plural questes)
Descendants
- French: quête
Old French
Etymology
From Latin quaesta, from quaesita, from quaesitus. Compare querre.
Noun
queste oblique singular, f (oblique plural questes, nominative singular queste, nominative plural questes)
- search; act, instance of searching
Descendants
- → English: quest
- Middle French: queste
- French: quête
- → Middle High German: queste
- German: Quest
- → Middle Irish: coiste, cúaiste
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (queste)
- queste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub