question
Old French
noun
Definitions
- question (verbal statement intended to elicit a response)
- question (problem in need of resolution)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quaestiō, quaestiōnem, quaestio (question, inquiry, questioning, investigation).
Origin
Latin
quaestiō, quaestiōnem, quaestio
Gloss
question, inquiry, questioning, investigation
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
問
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- quaestio English
- quaestiō Latin
- quaestiō, quaestiōnem Latin
- quaestiō, quaestiōnem, quaestio Latin
- quaestiōnem Latin
- quaestiōnārius Latin
- questione Italian
- question French
- questionnable French
- questionneur French
- questionneuse French
- cuestión Spanish, Castilian
- questão Portuguese
- question Middle English
- question, questioun, questiun Middle English
- questioun Middle English
- qüestió Catalan, Valencian
- cuestión Galician
- chestiune Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cwestiwn Welsh
- questie Middle Dutch
- ceist Old Irish
- tchestchion Norman
- tchestchionner Norman
- cuestión Asturian
- questiun xno
- kesyon Haitian, Haitian Creole
- chestione Sardinian