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enquête

See also: enquete, Enquete, and enquêté

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French enquête, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French enqueste. Displaced older enqueste, from Old French.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑŋˈkɛː.tə/
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  • Hyphenation: en‧quê‧te

Noun edit

enquête f (plural enquêtes, diminutive enquêtetje n)

  1. survey (set of questions about opinions)
  2. investigation (e.g. a congressional investigation)

Descendants edit

  • → Indonesian: angket

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *inquaesita < Latin inquīrere. < quaerere. Compare also the Medieval Latin inquesta, from Latin in- + quaesita.

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Noun edit

enquête f (plural enquêtes)

  1. inquest, investigation, examination
    • 1890, Guy de Maupassant, La vie errante:
      Plusieurs mois se passèrent, puis cet homme, ayant été appelé à la questure, laissa glisser cette lettre à terre. Un gendarme la saisit et la présenta au juge qui tomba en arrêt sur les mots : intentions meurtrières, pris une autre route, réfugiés, capturés, Lombardo. Le paysan fut emprisonné, interrogé, mis au secret. Il n’avoua rien. On le garda et une enquête sévère fut ouverte.
      Several months passed. Then this man, having been appointed to a collectorship, threw away the letter. A policeman picked it up and presented it to a judge, who immediately fell upon these words: "Murderous intentions, taken another route, found refuge, captured, Lombardo. The peasant was imprisoned, questioned, almost tortured. He knew nothing. They kept him imprisoned, and a severe examination was begun.
  2. survey, inquiry
    • 1923, Marcel Proust, La prisonnière:
      C’est justement parce que cette douceur a été nécessaire pour enfanter la douleur — et reviendra du reste la calmer par intermittences — que les hommes peuvent être sincères avec autrui, et même avec eux-mêmes, quand ils se glorifient de la bonté d’une femme envers eux, quoique, à tout prendre, au sein de leur liaison circule constamment, d’une façon secrète, inavouée aux autres, ou révélée involontairement par des questions, des enquêtes, une inquiétude douloureuse.
      It is precisely because this comfort has been necessary to bring grief to birth—and will return moreover at intervals to calm it—that men can be sincere with each other, and even with themselves, when they pride themselves upon a woman’s kindness to them, although, taking things all in all, at the heart of their intimacy there lurks continually in a secret fashion, unavowed to the rest of the world, or revealed unintentionally by questions, inquiries, a painful uncertainty.

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Verb edit

enquête

  1. inflection of enquêter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French enquête.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑŋˈkeːt/, /ˌɛŋˈkeːt/

Noun edit

enquête m (definite singular enquêten, indefinite plural enquêtar, definite plural enquêtane)

  1. a poll, survey
    Synonym: spørjeundersøking

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