interrogo
Catalan
Verb
interrogo
- first-person singular present indicative of interrogar
Italian
Verb
interrogo
- first-person singular present indicative of interrogare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From inter (“between; among”) + rogō (“ask; request”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈtɛr.rɔ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈtɛr.ro.ɡo]
Verb
interrogō (present infinitive interrogāre, perfect active interrogāvī, supine interrogātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to ask, question, inquire, interrogate, to seek information from
- Synonyms: scīscitor, quaerō, inquīrō, requīrō, percontor, scīscō, investīgō, explōrō
- cāsus interrogandī ― the genitive case
- Aemilia interrogat “Quis mē vocat?”[1]
- Aemilia asks, “Who called me?”
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.13:
- Interrogās mē, num in exilium? Nōn iubeō, sed, sī mē cōnsulis, suādeō.
- You ask me whether [I send you] into exile? I do not order it, but, if you consult me, I urge it.
- Interrogās mē, num in exilium? Nōn iubeō, sed, sī mē cōnsulis, suādeō.
- (law) to put a formal question to (in making a stipulation)
- (law, transitive) to question judicially, examine, interrogate
- (transitive with sententiam) to ask (a senator) for his opinion, consult
- (transitive, often with lēge) to call to account in a court of law, arraign, indict, sue
- (intransitive) to argue, reason (syllogistically)
Conjugation
Conjugation of interrogō (first conjugation)
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: intargà
- Italian: enterrogare, >? interrogare (latinized?)
- → Sardinian: interrogare, intorrogare
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: enterver, anterver
- French: entraver
- Old Occitan: entervar, antervar
- Old French: enterver, anterver
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: entrugar
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: interrogar
- → English: interrogate
- → French: interroger
- → Portuguese: interrogar
- → Romanian: interoga
- → Spanish: interrogar
Through Vulgar Latin *intreguāre:
References
- “interrogō” on page 1042 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “interrogare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 762
Further reading
- “interrogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interrogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “interrogo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cross-examine cleverly, put leading questions: bene interrogare
- to ask the opinion of..: sententiam rogare, interrogare
- to cross-examine cleverly, put leading questions: bene interrogare
Portuguese
Verb
interrogo
- first-person singular present indicative of interrogar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inteˈroɡo/ [ĩn̪.t̪eˈro.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes: -oɡo
- Syllabification: in‧te‧rro‧go
Verb
interrogo
- first-person singular present indicative of interrogar