interrogate

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin interrogō (“to inquire, interrogate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡeɪt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/

Verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

1. (transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

   The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.

2. (transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.

   to interrogate a database

3. (transitive, literary) to examine critically.
   • 2015, Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes, Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies, Michigan State University Press:

     Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.

   • 2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood‎, volume 26, number 1, page 54:

     Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice.

Derived terms

• cross-interrogate
• interrogatability
• interrogatable
• interrogatingly
• reinterrogate
• uninterrogated

Related terms

• interrogable
• interrogatee
• interrogation
• interrogative
• interrogatively
• interrogator
• interrogatory

Translations

to question or quiz

Arabic: حَقَّقَ مَعَ (ḥaqqaqa maʕa), اِسْتَجْوَبَ (istajwaba), اِسْتَنْطَقَ (istanṭaqa) Armenian: հարցաքննել (hy) (harcʻakʻnnel) Azerbaijani: dindirmək (az) Belarusian: дапы́тваць impf (dapýtvacʹ), дапыта́ць pf (dapytácʹ) Bulgarian: разпи́твам (bg) impf (razpítvam), разпи́там pf (razpítam), запи́твам (bg) impf (zapítvam), запи́там pf (zapítam) Catalan: interrogar (ca) Chechen: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 審問 / 审问 (zh) (shěnwèn), 審訊 / 审讯 (zh) (shěnxùn) Czech: vyslýchat impf Danish: forhøre (da), afhøre (da) Dutch: verhoren (nl), ondervragen (nl), interrogeren (nl) Esperanto: pridemandi (eo) Estonian: üle kuulama Finnish: kuulustella (fi) French: interroger (fr) Georgian: გამოკითხავს (gamoḳitxavs) German: verhören (de), vernehmen (de) Greek: ανακρίνω (el) (anakríno) Hindi: प्रश्न करना (praśna karnā), पूछताछ करना (pūchtāch karnā) Hungarian: faggat (hu), vallat (hu), kikérdez (hu), kifaggat (hu) Ingrian: kuulussella Irish: ceistigh Italian: interrogare (it) Japanese: 尋問する (ja) (じんもんする, jinmon suru), 訊く (ja) (きく, kiku) Kazakh: жауап алу (jauap alu), тергеу (tergeu) Khmer: សង្កិន (km) (sɑngkən), បុច្ឆា (km) (bocchaa), ផ្ចុច (km) (phcoc), ជជីក (km) (cɔciik) Korean: 심문하다 (ko) (simmunhada) Kyrgyz: суракка алуу (surakka aluu) Latin: sciscitor, percontor Latvian: nopratināt Lithuanian: apklausinėti Macedonian: сослушува impf (soslušuva), сослуша pf (sosluša), испитува impf (ispituva), испита pf (ispita) Maori: uiui Mongolian: Cyrillic: байцаах (mn) (bajcaax) Norwegian: Bokmål: avhøra, forhøre Persian: بازجویی کردن (bâz-juyi kardan), استنطاق کردن (estentâq kardan), بازپرسی کردن (bâzporsi kardan) Polish: przesłuchiwać (pl) impf, przesłuchać (pl) pf Portuguese: interrogar, questionar (pt) Romanian: a interoga (ro) Russian: допра́шивать (ru) impf (doprášivatʹ), допроси́ть (ru) pf (doprosítʹ), спра́шивать (ru) impf (sprášivatʹ), спроси́ть (ru) pf (sprosítʹ) (ask, inquire) Sanskrit: पृच्छति (sa) (pṛcchati) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: испити́вати impf, испи́тати pf, преслуша́вати impf, прѐслушати pf Roman: ispitívati (sh) impf, ispítati (sh) pf, preslušávati (sh) impf, prèslušati (sh) pf Slovak: vypočúvať impf Slovene: zasliševati impf, zaslišati pf, izpraševati impf, izprašati pf Spanish: interrogar (es) Swedish: förhöra (sv) Tajik: тергав кардан (tergav kardan), истинтоқ кардан (istintoq kardan), бозпурсӣ кардан (bozpursi kardan) Thai: สอบถาม (th) (sɔ̀ɔp-tǎam), ซักถาม (th) (sák-tǎam), ไถ่ (th) (tài), สอบปากคำ Turkish: sorguya çekmek (tr), sorgulamak (tr), soru sormak (tr), isticvap etmek, istinkak etmek Turkmen: sorag etmek Ukrainian: допи́тувати impf (dopýtuvaty), допита́ти pf (dopytáty) Uyghur: سوراق قىلماق (soraq qilmaq) Uzbek: soʻroq qilmoq Vietnamese: thẩm vấn (vi), hỏi cung (vi)

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “interrogate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “interrogate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

interrogate

1. inflection of interrogare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

interrogate f pl

1. feminine plural of interrogato

Anagrams

• integratore, reintegrato

Latin

Verb

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō

Spanish

Verb

interrogate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of interrogar combined with te