inquisitio

== Latin == === Etymology === From inquīrō +‎ -tiō. === Noun === inquīsītiō f (genitive inquīsītiōnis); third declension search, inquiry, examination, investigation collecting of evidence ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Norman: enquéson (?) → English: inquisition → French: inquisition → Italian: inquisizione → Portuguese: inquisição → Romanian: inchiziție → Russian: инквизиция (inkvizicija) → Spanish: inquisición === References === “inquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “inquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "inquisitio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “inquisitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.