Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove. · To insert a probe into.
Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. · An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans. · Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. · An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove. For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.
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