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- Latin · derived fromquaere
- English todayquery
An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”); perhaps suffixed with -y (“abstract noun”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
Words from the same roots
Latinquaere all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.