Other forms: interrogations
An interrogation is the long hard questioning of a suspect. Under interrogation, an interrogation room, hours of interrogation.
It is the formal word: police interviews are called interviews, and interrogation carries an implication of pressure. In Britain, police questioning is regulated by codes of practice, and interviews are recorded, which is what stops interrogation being what the word suggests. Note interrogate; interrogative, which in grammar means a question form; and that research on interrogation consistently finds that pressure produces false confessions.
1nouninterrogationThe long hard questioning of a suspect.
“The interrogation went on for about eleven hours.”
interrogation is a formal questioning.
Latin interrogatio comes from interrogare — inter-, between, plus rogare, to ask. The same rogare gives rogation, prerogative and surrogate, and the whole family is about asking formally.
Latin
interrogātiō
Old French
interrogacion
Middle English
interrogacion
English, today
interrogation
Built from
From Middle English interrogacion, from Old French interrogacion, from Latin interrogātiō, from interrogō, from inter- (“between; among”) + rogō (“to ask; to request”). Equivalent to inter- + rogation or interrogate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA