vexata quaestio
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vexata quaestio.
Noun
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- A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
- 1991, Carmen Pensado, “How was Leonese Vulgar Latin Read?”, in Roger Wright, editor, Latin and the Roman Languages in the Middle Ages, page 190:
- It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent.
- 2010, Samantha Velluti, New Governance and the European Employment Strategy:
- European intervention in the social sphere—and annexed questions such as why, to what extent and in what way—has long been a vexata quaestio.
Latin
Etymology
From vexata (“vexed”) + quaestio (“question”).
Phrase
vēxāta quaestiō f (genitive vēxātae quaestiōnis); third declension
- A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
Declension
First-declension noun with a third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vēxāta quaestiō | vēxātae quaestiōnēs |
Genitive | vēxātae quaestiōnis | vēxātārum quaestiōnum |
Dative | vēxātae quaestiōnī | vēxātīs quaestiōnibus |
Accusative | vēxātam quaestiōnem | vēxātās quaestiōnēs |
Ablative | vēxātā quaestiōne | vēxātīs quaestiōnibus |
Vocative | vēxāta quaestiō | vēxātae quaestiōnēs |