vexata quaestio
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
Example Sentences
- "On entering upon this question, he states it to be one of great difficulty—a vexata quaestio as it were, and one which had at all times much divided, and at the time he wrote, still continued to divide the opinions of great jurists."
- "It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent."
- "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."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vexāta quaestiō.
Inflected Forms
vexatae quaestiones (plural)
quaestio vexata (alternative)
vexata quæstio (alternative)