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English

Etymology

interrogate +? -or

Noun

interrogator (plural interrogators)

1. One who interrogates; a person who asks questions; a questioner.
2. A device that requests data from another device.
   • 2002, Mark Beaulieu, Wireless Internet applications and architecture (page 126)

     Any RFID interrogator within 30 meters can read an RFID tag in active mode.

Synonyms

• questioner
• inquirer
• inquisitor

Related terms

• interrogate
• interrogation

Translations

Further reading

• Interrogation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From interrog? (“inquire, interrogate; argue”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.ter.ro??a?.tor/, [?n?t??r????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.ter.ro??a.tor/, [in?t??r??????t??r]

Noun

interrog?tor m (genitive interrog?t?ris); third declension

1. An interrogator.
2. A wizard.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• interrog?t?rius

Related terms

Descendants

• French: interrogateur
• Italian: interrogatore

References

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

Occitan

Noun

interrogator m (plural interrogators, feminine interrogatritz, feminine plural interrogatrises) (Languedoc)

1. interrogator

Related terms

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 322.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interrogacion, from Latin interrog?ti?, from interrog?, from inter- (“between; among”) + rog? (“ask; request”). Equivalent to inter- + rogation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?te?.???e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

interrogation (countable and uncountable, plural interrogations)

1. The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
2. A question put; an inquiry.
3. (dated) A question mark.

Usage notes

• Generally used with the preposition under: "He is under interrogation about last night's events."

Related terms

• interrogate
• interrogative
• interrogator
• interrogatory
• rogation
• subrogation

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interrog?ti?. Synchronically analysable as interroger +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?.??.?a.sj??/

Noun

interrogation f (plural interrogations)

1. questioning, interrogation
2. (grammar) interrogative, question
3. (computing) query
4. examen, often unexpected

Derived terms

• point d'interrogation

Further reading

• “interrogation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).