percontation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpɜːkɒnˈteɪʃn̩/    美 /ˌpɝkənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. an enquiry formal,obsolete,rare
    — Percontation. An enquiry.
  2. A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”. formal,obsolete,rare
    — Percontation is a thing for which we cannot anſwer ſignificantly, as in Interrogation, yes: but as thus, he dwelleth in ſuch a place.

词形变化

percontations plural percunctation alternative

词汇关系

相关词
percontatorial percontative punctus percontativus

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin percontatiō (“inquiry, questioning”), from percontor (“to interrogate, investigate”) + -tiō.
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