enquête French · revision 17649

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1170, Livre des Rois|origins=la quaerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɑ̃.kɛt/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /ɑ̃.kɛːt/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Quebec, informal): [ãkæɪ̯t]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''enquête''' ''f'' (plural enquêtes)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|enqueste]];^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) ''enquête'' from the 17th century.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|enqueste]], [[inh|la-vul|*inquaesita]], the feminine past participle, used as a noun, of [[m|la-vul|*inquaerō]], a form of Latin [[m|la|inquīrō|t=to seek out, inquire into]] remade on the simple verb [[m|la|quaerō|t=to seek]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|4, 707a) The participle had disappeared before the first texts.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The verb gave [[enquérir]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi) Compare [[la-med|inquesta]], a legal term in England in 1275, [[it|inchiesta]] and [[pro|enquesta]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the ''Livre des Rois'' (about 1170) ''enqueste'' means a search or inquiry.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Beaumanoir (1283) uses it as a legal term, the inquiry ordered by a court, as in ''loial enqueste''; the 15th-century royal ordinances classify ''enquestes à juger'' and ''enquestes jugées''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) In the late 12th century it could also mean a question or request.^(GLLF 1989) Palsgrave (1530) records the general sense, a search for the truth by questioning people and studying documents, and in the 19th century it came to mean a survey of opinions or facts (1870).^(GLLF 1989) The derivatives are [[enquêter]] and [[enquêteur]] (1283, Beaumanoir).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1170 – ''Enqueste'' in the ''Livre des Rois''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1275 – Medieval Latin ''inquesta'' in England.^(TLFi)

+ * 1283 – A judicial inquiry, in Beaumanoir.^(TLFi)

+ * 1530 – Palsgrave: a search for the truth.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1870 – A survey of opinion.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(law)'' A judicial inquiry in which witnesses are heard: ''ouvrir une enquête''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # An [[m|en|investigation]], especially by the police.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # A [[m|en|survey]], an inquiry into opinions or facts by questioning people: ''enquête d'opinion''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[enquêter]]

+ * [[enquérir]]

+ * [[requête]]

+ * [[quête]]

+ * [[la|inquīrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}