different between indagator vs indagate

English

Etymology

indagate +? -or

Noun

indagator (plural indagators)

1. (obsolete) An investigator.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 5-6:

     For that, being the number of the Elements, Principles, or Materiall Ingredients of Bodies, is an enquiry whole truth is of that Importance, and of that Difficulty, that it may as well deserve as require to be searched into by such skilfull Indagators of Nature as your selves.

Anagrams

• adorating, gradation, tanagroid

Latin

Verb

ind?g?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ind?g?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ind?g?

References

• indagator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indagator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin indagatus, past participle of indagare (“to search”).

Verb

indagate (third-person singular simple present indagates, present participle indagating, simple past and past participle indagated)

1. (transitive) to search into, investigate

Derived terms

• indagator

Italian

Adjective

indagate

1. feminine plural of indagato

Noun

indagate f

1. plural of indagata

Verb

indagate

1. second-person plural present indicative of indagare
2. second-person plural imperative of indagare
3. feminine plural of indagato

Latin

Participle

ind?g?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ind?g?tus