interrogo

See also: interrogó and interrogò

Catalan

Verb

interrogo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of interrogar

Italian

Verb

interrogo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of interrogare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From inter (“between; among”) + rogō (“ask; request”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    interrogō (present infinitive interrogāre, perfect active interrogāvī, supine interrogātum); first conjugation

    1. (transitive) to ask; to question; to inquire; to interrogate; to seek information from
      Synonyms: rogō, 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, In Catilinam orationes 1.13:
        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.
    2. (law) to put a formal question to (in making a stipulation)
    3. (law, transitive) to question judicially; to examine; to interrogate
    4. (transitive with sententiam) to consult (to ask (a senator) for his opinion)
    5. (transitive, often with lēge) to arraign; to indict; to sue; to call to account in a court of law
    6. (intransitive) to argue; to reason (syllogistically)

    Conjugation

    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Italo-Romance:
      • Corsican: intargà
      • Italian: enterrogare, >? interrogare (Latinized?)
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old French: enterver, anterver
      • Old Occitan: entervar, antervar
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Borrowings:

    Through Vulgar Latin *intreguāre:

    References

    1. ^ Oerberg, Hans H. (2011), Lingua Latina per se illustrata. Pars I, Familia Romana‎[1], Newburyport, MA, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20

    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

    Portuguese

    Verb

    interrogo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of interrogar

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /inteˈroɡo/ [ĩn̪.t̪eˈro.ɣ̞o]
    • Rhymes: -oɡo
    • Syllabification: in‧te‧rro‧go

    Verb

    interrogo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of interrogar