interrogator

From Latin interrogātor.^[1] By surface analysis, interrogate +‎ -or.

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interrogator (plural interrogators)

1. One who interrogates; a person who asks questions, especially one who is adversarial.

   Synonyms: inquisitor, inquirer, questioner

   Antonyms: interrogatee, questionee; see also Thesaurus:askee

2. A device that requests data from another device.
   • 2002, Mark Beaulieu, Wireless Internet applications and architecture, page 126:

     Any RFID interrogator within 30 meters can read an RFID tag in active mode.

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• retrogration

From interrogō (“inquire, interrogate; argue”) + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛr.rɔˈɡaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.ter.roˈɡaː.tor]

interrogātor m (genitive interrogātōris); third declension

1. An interrogator.
2. A wizard.

Third-declension noun.

• interrogātōrius

• → English: interrogator
• → French: interrogateur
• → Italian: interrogatore

• “interrogator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interrogator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

interrogator m (plural interrogators, feminine interrogatritz, feminine plural interrogatrises) (Languedoc)

1. interrogator

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 322