quaestor

1. 1.

   any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)

   Broaderofficial

   finance

Other forms of quaestor

plural

quaestors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quaestor

What does quaestor mean?

quaestor means "any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)".

How many syllables are in quaestor?

quaestor has 3 syllables and divides as qua-e-stor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.