Other forms: questions
A question is what you ask when you want to know something. Ask a question.
The good ones are short and cannot be answered with yes. A question in a meeting is often a statement wearing a hat.
1nounquestionWhat you ask when you want to know something.
“The question took nine seconds and the answer took a year.”
question is a request.
From Latin quaerere, to seek. A question is a search you have handed to somebody else.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷeh₂- — to acquire
Proto-Italic
*kʷaizeō
Latin
quaestiōnem
Old French
question
Anglo-Norman
questiun
Middle English
questioun
English, today
question
Built from
From Middle English questioun, from Anglo-Norman questiun, from Old French question, from Latin quaestiōnem, accusative of quaestiō (“a seeking, investigation, inquiry, question”), from quaerere (“to seek, ask, inquire”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). a doublet of quest. Partially displaced native āscung, whence asking. Compare also Middle Low German quēstie (“questioning; inquiry”), Middle High German questje (“question”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA