Etymograph

English

indagate

Indagate comes from Latin indāgātus ‘tracked, traced, having been hunted by tracking’, and goes back to indāgō ‘to search’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindāgō1‘to search’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEindāgātus1‘tracked, traced, having been hunted by tracking’perfect passive participle of indāgō
  3. Englishtodayindagate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English indagate

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindāgōWiktionary, English indagate‘to search’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEindāgātusWiktionary, English indagate‘tracked, traced, having been hunted by tracking’perfect passive participle of indāgō
  3. EnglishtodayindagateWiktionary, English indagate

first attested First attested in 1623 (as stated in Wiktionary’s etymology)

The story

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin indāgātus, perfect passive participle of indāgō (‘to search’), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Every English word from Latin indāgō

Today it means

verb to search into, investigate

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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