questionnaire

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin quaerō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin quaestiōder.

Late Latin quaestiōnō

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Late Latin -āriusnom.

Late Latin -ārius

Late Latin quaestiōnāriusbor.

French questionnairebor.

English questionnaire

Borrowed from French questionnaire, from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (English question) + -arius, from quaerō (“to question”) (English query).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/, /ˌk(w)ɛstjəˈnɛə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

questionnaire (plural questionnaires)

1. A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.

   carry out a questionnaire

   fill out a questionnaire

   • 1946 January and February, “Post-War Passenger Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:

     In considering their post-war designs some of the British and American railways have adopted the course of taking a cross section of the requirements of the travelling public by distributing questionnaires dealing with details of seating, lighting, catering, and other features making for comfortable journeys.

Derived terms

• equestionnaire
• heteroquestionnaire
• opinionaire
• opinionnaire
• postquestionnaire
• prequestionnaire

Related terms

• question

Translations

form containing a list of questions

• Albanian: anketë (sq) f, pyetësor (sq) m
• Arabic: اِسْتِبَانَة f (istibāna)
• Aragonese: cuestionario m
• Asturian: cuestionariu m, encuesta f
• Belarusian: анке́та f (ankjéta), апыта́льнік m (apytálʹnik)
• Breton: roll-goulenn m
• Bulgarian: въпро́сник (bg) m (vǎprósnik)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: qüestionari (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏗᏛᏛᎮᎸᎠᏍᎩ (didvdvhelvasgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 問卷 / 问卷 (zh) (wènjuàn), 調查表 / 调查表 (zh) (diàochábiǎo)

• Cornish: govynnek m
• Corsican: quistionariu m
• Czech: dotazník (cs) m
• Danish: spørgeskema (da) n
• Dutch: questionnaire (nl), vragenlijst (nl) f
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: demandaro
• Estonian: küsimusieht, ankeet
• Finnish: kyselylomake, kyselykaavake, kysely (fi)
• French: questionnaire (fr) m, enquête (fr) f
• Friulian: cuistionari m
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: კითხვარი (ḳitxvari), ანკეტა (anḳeṭa)
• German: Fragebogen (de) m
• Greek: ερωτηματολόγιο (el) n (erotimatológio)
• Hindi: प्रश्नावली f (praśnāvlī)
• Hungarian: kérdőív (hu)
• Ido: questionaro (io)
• Indonesian: angket (id), kuesioner (id)
• Irish: ceistiúchán m
• Italian: questionario (it) m
• Japanese: アンケート (ja) (ankēto)
• Kazakh: анкета (anketa), сауалнама (kk) (saualnama)
• Khmer: បញ្ជីសំនួរ (bɑɑñciisɑmnuə)
• Korean: 설문지 (ko) (seolmunji), 앙케트 (angketeu)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ແບບສອບຖາມ (bǣp sǭp thām)
• Latvian: anketa f, aptauja f
• Ligurian: questionâio m
• Lithuanian: anketa f
• Lombard: questionà m
• Luxembourgish: Froebou m, Questionnaire m
• Macedonian: анкета f (anketa), прашалник m (prašalnik)
• Malay: daftar (ms) pertanyaan (ms), soal selidik
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: rārangi uiui, rārangi pātai
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: tchestionnaithe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spørreskjema n

  Nynorsk: spørjeskjema n

• Occitan: questionari (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Pannonian Rusyn: питальнїк m (pitalʹnjik)
• Persian: پرسشنامه (fa) (porseš-nâme)
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: ankieta (pl) f, kwestionariusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: questionário (pt) m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: анке́та (ru) f (ankéta), опро́сник (ru) m (oprósnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceisteachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анкета f, анкетни листић m, упитник m

  Latin: anketa (sh) f, anketni listić m, upitnik (sh) m

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: dotazník (sk) m
• Slovene: vprašalnik m
• Spanish: cuestionario (es) m, encuesta (es) f
• Swahili: dodoso, orodha (sw) ya (sw) maswali (sw) ya (sw) uchunguzi (sw)
• Swedish: enkät (sv) c
• Tagalog: talatanungan
• Tajik: пурсишнома (pursišnoma)
• Thai: แบบสอบถาม (th) (bɛ̀ɛp-sɔ̀ɔp-tǎam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: anket (tr) formu
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: анке́та (uk) f (ankéta), запита́льник m (zapytálʹnyk)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bản câu hỏi, bảng câu hỏi
• Volapük: säkablog
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: holiadur m or f
• Yakut: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אַנקעטע f (ankete)

Verb

questionnaire (third-person singular simple present questionnaires, present participle questionnairing, simple past and past participle questionnaired)

1. (transitive) To survey using questionnaires.

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin quaerō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin quaestiōder.

Late Latin quaestiōnō

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Late Latin -āriusnom.

Late Latin -ārius

Late Latin quaestiōnāriusbor.

French questionnaire

Borrowed from Late Latin quaestiōnārius, from quaestiōnō, from Latin quaestiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

questionnaire m (plural questionnaires)

1. questionnaire

Related terms

• question

Further reading

• “questionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• questionnerai