ENQUIRE Copy link • ENQUIREA sk, interrogare, rogare aliquem or (less frequently) de aliquo: anybody about anything, aliquem aliquid (or less commonly de re): sciscitari ex aliquo: quaerere, exquirere, requirere ex or ab aliquo: percunctari de or ex aliquo; whether, utrum; if or whether anything, ecquid or quid (not si quid). [SYN. in ASK.] To enquire in a captious manner, captiose interrogare; to enquire one’s way, rogare viam (†); exquirere iter. To enquire into a subject, quaerere aliquid or de re; inquirere in aliquid: exquirere aliquid. Vid. EXAMINE, INVESTIGATE. To enquire judicially, quaerere (e.g., de morte alicujus; de tanta re; also, de servo in dominum, by torture): inquirere (e.g., in competitores, Cic.): cognoscere (absolutely and de re; for which Dig. has super aliqua re).