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Latin
Etymology
percontor + -tiō
Noun
percontātiō f (genitive percontātiōnis); third declension
- questioning, inquiry
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.39:
- Dum paucos dies ad Vesontionem rei frumentariae commeatusque causa moratur, ex percontatione nostrorum vocibusque Gallorum ac mercatorum tantus subito timor omnem exercitum occupavit ut non mediocriter omnium mentes animosque perturbaret.
- While he is tarrying a few days at Vesontio, on account of corn and provisions, from the inquiries of our men and the reports of the Gauls and traders so great a panic on a sudden seized the whole army, as to discompose the minds and spirits of all in no slight degree.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “percontatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “percontatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- percontatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.