Editing Quaestor (section)

==Etymology==
''Quaestor'' derives from the Latin verb ''{{lang|la|quaero}}'', ''{{lang|la|quaerere}}'',<ref name ="Queastor">{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=Charlton T |last2=Short |first2=Charles |chapter=quaestor |title=A Latin Dictionary |year=1879 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=quaestor}}</ref> meaning "to inquire"<ref name ="quaero">{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=Charlton T |last2=Short |first2=Charles |chapter=quaero |title=A Latin Dictionary |year=1879 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=quaero}}</ref> (probably ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root of interrogative pronouns ''*kʷo-''). The job title has traditionally been understood as deriving from the original investigative function of the ''{{lang|la|quaestores parricidii}}''.<ref name="covino">{{cite journal|title=The Fifth century, the decemvirate, and the quaestorship|last=Covino|first=Ralph|year=2011|journal=ASCS 32 Selected Proceedings|publisher=Australasian Society for Classical Studies|editor=Anne Mackay|url=http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs32/Covino.pdf|access-date=2012-08-11}}</ref><ref name="smith">
{{cite book |last=Schmitz |first=Leonhard |editor-last=Smith|editor-first=William |chapter=Quaestor |title= A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities|year=1875|publisher=John Murray |location=London |pages=980–82 |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Quaestor.html|access-date=2012-08-12 |via=LacusCurtius }}</ref>