percontorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Uncertain, suggestions include:

• from contus (“stick, pole; plummet”), as if "to probe, to feel the depth with a (long) pole";
• from cū̆nctor (this appears semantically unconvincing and more likely simply influenced by it, as in the Vulgar Latin derivative below, but compare Japanese 掛ける); (Can this etymology be sourced?)
• from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pɛrˈkɔn.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [perˈkɔn̪.t̪or]

動詞

percontor (present infinitive percontārī or percontārier, perfect active percontātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to inquire, investigate, interrogate, question strictly

   Synonyms: scīscitor, quaerō, scīscō, indāgō, requīrō, investīgō, interrogō, explōrō

Conjugation

The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

派生語

派生した語

• Old Sardinian: percontare, precontare, pregontare, pregontari
  • Logudorese: pregontari
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *praecū̆nctāre (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: percontare
• →⇒ English: percontatorial
• →⇒ Spanish: preguntar

参照

• Joan Coromines; José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985), “preguntar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 635

Further reading

• “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “percontor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.