inquisitor
English
Alternative forms
- inquisitour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkwɪzətəɹ/
Noun
inquisitor (plural inquisitors)
- A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
- (historical) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
Derived terms
Translations
interrogator, questioner
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official of the Inquisition
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Further reading
inquisitor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Agent noun of inquīrō (“inquire, investigate”) (past participle inquīsītus) + + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.kʷiːˈsiː.tor/, [ɪŋkʷiːˈs̠iːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.kwiˈsi.tor/, [iŋkwiˈs̬iːt̪or]
Noun
inquīsītor m (genitive inquīsītōris, feminine inquīsītrix); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Catalan: inquisidor
- Galician: inquisidor
- Italian: inquisitore
- Occitan: inquisidor
- → Old French: inquisiteur
- French: inquisiteur
- → English: inquisitor
- → Portuguese: inquisidor
- Russian: инквизи́тор (inkvizítor)
- → Spanish: inquisidor
References
- “inquisitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inquisitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inquisitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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