inquire

Meaning

  1. To ask (about something).
  2. To make an inquiry or an investigation.
  3. (obsolete) To call; to name.

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
in‧quire
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈkwaɪə/
Etymology

In summary

From Latin inquīrō (“to seek for”), composed of in- (“in, at, on; into”) + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Displaced Middle English enqueren (from Old French enquerre, of the same source) and native Middle English speir (“ask, inquire”).

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