Which is an english derivative from the latin word for "seek"?

The Latin word for "seek" is "quaerō". Some English derivatives that come from this root Latin word are as follows: acquire, inquire, inquisitive, query, and quest.

If you acquire something, it means you've found something that you were seeking. Inquire and inquisitive mean seeking information or someone who likes to get a lot of information, and query and quest are two types of questioning methods. A query is a question-seeking information, and a quest is a journey on which you go seeking for something.