inquisitor

inquisitor

English

Alternative forms

• inquisitour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor

Noun

inquisitor (plural inquisitors)

1. A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
2. An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.

Derived terms

• Grand Inquisitor

Translations

interrogator, questioner

Catalan: inquiridor m, inquisidor m Czech: inkvizitor (cs) m French: inquisiteur (fr) m German: Inquisitor (de) m

Greek: ανακριτής (el) m (anakritís) Portuguese: inquisidor m, inquiridor m Spanish: inquisidor m

official of the Inquisition

Bulgarian: инквизитор m (inkvizitor) Catalan: inquisidor m German: Inquisitor (de) m

Portuguese: inquisidor m Spanish: inquisidor m

Further reading

• inquisitor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology

Agent noun of inquīrō (“inquire, investigate”) (past participle inquīsītus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.kʷiːˈsiː.tor/, [ɪŋ.kᶣiːˈsiː.tɔr]

Noun

inquīsītor m (genitive inquīsītōris); third declension

1. searcher
2. inquisitor, tracker, detective, spy
3. examiner, investigator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inquīsītor	inquīsītōrēs
Genitive	inquīsītōris	inquīsītōrum
Dative	inquīsītōrī	inquīsītōribus
Accusative	inquīsītōrem	inquīsītōrēs
Ablative	inquīsītōre	inquīsītōribus
Vocative	inquīsītor	inquīsītōrēs

Descendants

• Russian: инквизи́тор (inkvizítor)

References

• inquisitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inquisitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inquisitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette