scrutor
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From scrūta, as the original sense of the verb was to search through trash. Compare the possibly parallel development of Old High German scrutōn.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskruː.tor/, [ˈs̠kruːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskru.tor/, [ˈskruːt̪or]
Verb
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
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: escrutar
- →⇒ English: scrutinize
- → French: scruter
- → Galician: escrutar
- → Italian: scrutare
- → Piedmontese: scruté
- → 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
- “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.