percontor

== Latin == === Alternative forms === percontō percū̆nctor === Etymology === Uncertain, suggestions include: from contus (“stick, pole; plummet”), as if "to probe, to feel the depth with a (long) pole"; from cū̆nctor (this appears semantically unconvincing and more likely simply influenced by it, as in the Vulgar Latin derivative below, but compare Japanese 掛ける); (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈkɔn.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈkɔn.tor] === Verb === percontor (present infinitive percontārī or percontārier, perfect active percontātus sum); first conjugation, deponent to inquire, investigate, interrogate, question strictly Synonyms: scīscitor, quaerō, scīscō, indāgō, requīrō, investīgō, interrogō, explōrō ==== Conjugation ==== 1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “preguntar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 635 === Further reading === “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “percontor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.