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Latin
Etymology
From con- + quaerō.
Pronunciation
Verb
conquīrō (present infinitive conquīrere, perfect active conquīsīvī, supine conquīsītum); third conjugation
- to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of
- Synonyms: inquīrō, quaesō, scrūtor, spectō, circumspiciō, quaerō, requīrō
- to collect, bring together
- Synonyms: cōgō, contrahō, cōnferō, congerō, coniungō, concieō, cōnserō, convehō, cōnstruō, glomerō, concitō, colligō
- to investigate, search out
- Synonyms: indāgō, investīgō, scrūtor
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References
- “conquiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conquiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conquiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.