anquiro Latin · revision 33962

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *kwai-s-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aŋˈkʷiː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aŋˈkʷiː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anquīrō''' (present infinitive anquīrere, perfect active anquīsīvī, supine anquīsītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ambi-|quaerō|t1=around|t2=to seek]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Festus, as reported by Paul the Deacon, already explained it as "to seek around".^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|quaerō]] to [[itc-pro|*kwai-s-e/o-]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*kueh₂-i-|t=to acquire]], but calls the further etymology uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are Cicero's: in the ''Tusculan Disputations'' a sufferer seeks an end of his pains in love of death, and in ''De officiis'' people inquire whether a thing is expedient or not.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to seek on all sides, look about for, search out:^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Cicero writes of seeking someone on whom to vent one's poison.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used with an indirect question, to inquire whether.^(OLD 2012) With a genitive, ablative or ''dē'' it is a term of law, to conduct a judicial inquiry or to bring an indictment: Livy has two men appointed to inquire into high treason.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Accius, according to Marius Victorinus, wrote it with ⟨ag-⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius, who wrote it with ⟨ag-⟩.^(TLL)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of seeking an end of pain.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a judicial inquiry into treason.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To seek or [[m|en|search]] for, try to discover; to inquire into.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' To conduct a judicial [[m|en|inquiry]]; to bring an [[m|en|indictment]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[anquisitio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quaerō]]

+ * [[inquīrō]]

+ * [[requīrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}