enquiry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 20
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Definition of enquiry
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(British, alt-of, countable, uncountable)British form of inquiry.
“scientific enquiry”
“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (title of book by David Hume)”
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Etymology
From Middle English enquery, from the Old French verb enquerre, from Latin inquīrō, composed of in- (“in, at, on; into”) + quaerō (“to seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but…
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From Middle English enquery, from the Old French verb enquerre, from Latin inquīrō, composed of in- (“in, at, on; into”) + quaerō (“to seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). The alternative form inquiry was subsequently respelled to conform to the original Latin spelling, as opposed to the Old French spelling.
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