English
exquire
Exquire comes from Latin exquiro ‘to seek or seek out, search for or hunt up’, and goes back to quaerō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquaerō‘seek’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexquiroas exquīrere‘to seek or seek out, search for or hunt up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1603exquire
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquaerō‘seek’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexquiroas exquīrere‘to seek or seek out, search for or hunt up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1603exquire
Earliest quotation: 1603, George Chapman: “That cloſe and moſt inennerable Pander That paſſeth all…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- ‘to acquire’
through Proto-Italic *kʷaizō
conquest, questionnaire, 10 more
through Latin quaerō ‘seek’
quest, acquisition, inquiry, conquer, query, inquisition, enquiry, requisite, inquire, inquisitor, 12 more
Today it means
verb To search into or out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin quaerō / exquire