scrutor
Latin
Alternative forms
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. Compare also Old English sċrūtnian (“to examine, scrutinise”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskruː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskruː.t̪or]
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
- to seek for
- Synonyms: inquīrō, requīrō, conquīrō, quaesō, circumspiciō
Conjugation
Conjugation of scrūtor (first conjugation, deponent)
indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | scrūtor | scrūtāris, scrūtāre |
scrūtātur | scrūtāmur | scrūtāminī | scrūtantur | ||||||
imperfect | scrūtābar | scrūtābāris, scrūtābāre |
scrūtābātur | scrūtābāmur | scrūtābāminī | scrūtābantur | |||||||
future | scrūtābor | scrūtāberis, scrūtābere |
scrūtābitur | scrūtābimur | scrūtābiminī | scrūtābuntur | |||||||
perfect | scrūtātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
pluperfect | scrūtātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
future perfect | scrūtātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | scrūter | scrūtēris, scrūtēre |
scrūtētur | scrūtēmur | scrūtēminī | scrūtentur | ||||||
imperfect | scrūtārer | scrūtārēris, scrūtārēre |
scrūtārētur | scrūtārēmur | scrūtārēminī | scrūtārentur | |||||||
perfect | scrūtātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
pluperfect | scrūtātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | — | scrūtāre | — | — | scrūtāminī | — | ||||||
future | — | scrūtātor | scrūtātor | — | — | scrūtantor | |||||||
non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
present | scrūtārī, scrūtārier1 |
— | scrūtāns | — | |||||||||
future | scrūtātūrum esse | — | scrūtātūrus | scrūtandus | |||||||||
perfect | scrūtātum esse | — | scrūtātus | — | |||||||||
future perfect | scrūtātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
perfect potential | scrūtātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
scrūtandī | scrūtandō | scrūtandum | scrūtandō | scrūtātum | scrūtātū |
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
- īnscrūtābilis
- inscrūtor
- perscrūtor
- scrūtātiō
- scrūtātor
- scrūtātrīx
- scrūtinium
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.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “scrutiny”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.