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- Latin · derived frominquisitio
- Old French · derived frominquisicion
- English todayinquisition
From Old French inquisicion, from Latin inquisitio, from inquirere. The sense implying persecution is influenced by the name of the Spanish Inquisition, which is a cardinal exemplar of government inquisitions that give inquisitions a bad name.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.