Questor

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who embarks on a search or pursuit to find something valuable or important
2. An individual actively looking for or attempting to obtain a particular object, information, or goal
3. Someone engaged in a journey or endeavor with the aim of discovering or achieving a specific purpose

Etymology: "Questor" is the older spelling of "quaestor," the Roman magistrate who managed public money, and the word's core sense is "one who seeks." Its Latin root, "quaerere," meant "to seek, to ask, to inquire," and the magistrate's title came from the duty of investigating and looking into matters of public finance. In Middle English the word arrived as "questor," and that spelling survived into modern English alongside the Latin-style "quaestor." The sense of a traveller or seeker on a journey comes from the same root of seeking. Someone on a quest is, quite literally, someone looking for something, so the modern meaning of "questor" in the sense of one engaged in a search for a purpose follows naturally from the Latin idea of inquiry.

Synonyms: seeker, searcher, investigator