different between query vs quaere

English

Alternative forms

• quæry (archaic)

Etymology

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaer? (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?.?i/, /?kw?.?i/
• Rhymes: -???i, -??i

Noun

query (plural queries)

1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
2. A question mark.
   • 1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society of Great Britain:

     His Glossary has 'bouchen, to stop people's mouths,' but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page […]

   • 2006, "Pip", Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one? (on newsgroup rec.motorcycles)

     I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.

3. (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

Hyponyms

• subquery

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Query on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

1. (intransitive) To ask a question.
2. (transitive) To ask, inquire.
3. (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
4. (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
5. (transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
   • 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm.. hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)

     He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...

   • 2000, "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si (on newsgroup alt.irc.mirc)

     if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

6. (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.

Translations

Related terms

English

Alternative forms

• quære (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaer? (“seek, look for; ask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw???i/

Verb

quaere (third-person singular simple present quaeres, present participle quaering or quaereing, simple past and past participle quaered)

1. (archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
   • 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander:

     Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?

Noun

quaere (plural quaeres)

1. (archaic) A question or query.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3 (Penguin 2003, page #216):

     Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him.

References

• 1902: Websters International Dictionary.
• 1984: Concise Oxford.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quaere”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

quaere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of quaer?