inquisitio
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]inquīsītiō f (genitive inquīsītiōnis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | inquīsītiō | inquīsītiōnēs |
| genitive | inquīsītiōnis | inquīsītiōnum |
| dative | inquīsītiōnī | inquīsītiōnibus |
| accusative | inquīsītiōnem | inquīsītiōnēs |
| ablative | inquīsītiōne | inquīsītiōnibus |
| vocative | inquīsītiō | inquīsītiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Old French: enqueson
- Norman: enquéson
- → English: inquisition
- → French: inquisition
- → Italian: inquisizione
- → Portuguese: inquisição
- → Romanian: inchiziție
- → Russian: инквизиция (inkvizicija)
- → Spanish: inquisición
References
[edit]- “inquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "inquisitio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- inquisitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- zealous pursuit of truth: veri inquisitio atque investigatio
- zealous pursuit of truth: veri inquisitio atque investigatio