scrutor
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From scrūta, as the original sense of the verb was to search through trash.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskruː.tor/, [ˈs̠kruːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskru.tor/, [ˈskruːt̪or]
Verb edit
scrūtor (present infinitive scrūtārī or scrūtārier, perfect active scrūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to search carefully, search into or out, examine thoroughly, explore a thing, investigate
- to seek for
- Synonyms: inquīrō, requīrō, conquīrō, quaesō, circumspiciō
Conjugation edit
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: escrutar
- → English: scrutinize
- → French: scruter
- → Galician: escrutar
- → Italian: scrutare
- → Portuguese: escrutar
- → Romanian: scruta
- → Spanish: escrutar
- → Old Irish: scrútaid
- Irish: scrúd
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrùd
- ⇒ Middle Irish: *scrútaigid
- Irish: scrúdaigh
- Manx: scrutaghey
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrùdaich
References edit
- “scrutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scrutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scrutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scrutiny”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.