🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

indagação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩ.da.ɡaˈsɐ̃w

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Indagation/ˌɪn.dəˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A profunda indagação levou a importantes descobertas."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of searching, tracking, or investigating carefully.

    "Through rigorous indagation, the scholars uncovered long-lost historical documents."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin noun indagatio, coming from the verb indagare meaning 'to track, trace, or search into', formed from in- (into) and dagare (to track). It entered the English language in the late 16th century via French and Latin roots, preserving its formal and literary sense of careful investigation or searching.

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