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Enquiry

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Noun
  1. 1
    British form of inquiry. British, alt-of, countable, uncountable

    "scientific enquiry"

  2. 2
    a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest wordnet
  3. 3
    a search for knowledge wordnet
  4. 4
    an instance of questioning wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English enquery, from the Old French verb enquerre, from Latin inquīrō, composed of in- (“in, at, on; into”) + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). The alternative form inquiry was subsequently respelled to conform to the original Latin spelling, as opposed to the Old French spelling.

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