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Latin
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
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
- Synonyms: indāgō, scīscitor, quaerō, scīscō, investīgō, explōrō
- 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
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.