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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• QUESTION
1. s. interrogatio (PROP. an asking, in order to gain an answer or to learn the opinion of another; then, general term, any interrogative): quaestio (implies close and continued inquiry or examination; hence used especially of scientific and judicial investigation): percunctatio (close or accurate inquiry into the particulars of a fact): disceptatio (discussion, debate): a slight or trifling question, interrogatiuncula; rogatiuncula; quaestiuncula; disceptatiuncula: a captious question, captio; interrogatio captiosa; captiosum interrogationis genus: to put a captious question, captioso interrogationis genere uti; captiose interrogare: to answer a question, ad rogatum respondere; interroganti alicui respondere [Vid: also, ANSWER]; to put a question = to ask [Vid: ASK]: to propose a subject for debate, quaestionem ponere, proponere, afferre; de quo disceptetur ponere; or, from the context ponere only: the question arises, quaeritur; oritur disputatio; exsistit quaestio: but here a somewhat different question arises, whether, etc., exsistit autem hoc loco quaestio subdifficilis, num, etc.: the question now is, nunc id agitur: here, perhaps, the question may arise, hic fortasse quaerendum sit: that is not the question, hoc non dubium est; de hac re non dubitatur, dubitatio non oritur: it is a question, res in quaestionem venit or vocatur; res in disceptationem vocari potest: question by torture, quaestio ac tormenta; quaestio tormentis habita: a boundary question, controversia finalis; jurgium finale (Leg., Agr., p. 341, 342, Goes.): to debate a boundary question, de finibus ambigere: there is a boundary question, de finibus controversia est: to discuss, move, agitate a question, agere rem or de re (general term, to treat it, discuss it): disputare: disserere de aliqua re (of the discussions of learned men, the latter especially of a continued discourse): sermo est de re (of a conversational discussion, whether of two persons or more): aliquid in controversiam vocare, deducere, adducere (to make it a subject of dispute): OBS., agitara quaestionem is, to think it over, weigh it in the mind. To be made a question, in controversia esse or versari; in controversiam deductum esse; in contentione esse or versari; in disceptatione versari: to become a question, in contentionem venire; in controversiam vocari, adduci, deduci.
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  • v. To ask, interrogate, interrogare, rogare, aliquem aliquid or (more rarely) de re. [Vid: ASK.]
  • To doubt about, throw doubt upon, dubitare, addubitare aliquid or de re (with the accusative usually only when it is a simple neuter pronoun, or passive with a nominative, as, dubitatus parens; otherwise with de; Vid: Ochs., Cic., Ecl., p. 25): ponere in dubio (to bring in question): in dubitationem vocare (to call in question).