interrogate

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin interrogō (“to inquire, interrogate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

  1. (transitive) To question or quiz, especially in a thorough or aggressive manner.
    The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.
  2. (transitive, computing) To query (something); to request information from (something).
    to interrogate a database
  3. (transitive, literary) To examine (something) critically.
    • 2015, Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes, Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies, Michigan State University Press:
      Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.
    • 2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood‎[1], volume 26, number 1, archived from the original on 8 May 2024, page 54:
      Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice.

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

interrogate

  1. inflection of interrogare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

interrogate f pl

  1. feminine plural of interrogato

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

interrogāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō

Etymology 2

Participle

interrogāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of interrogātus

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /interoˈɡate/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.roˈɣ̞a.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: in‧te‧rro‧ga‧te

Verb

interrogate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of interrogar combined with te
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