verb/abeɾiˈɡwaɾ/
to find out, figure out, work out, determine; to dig up, to investigate; to argue
“No me digas la respuesta. Déjame averiguarla.” — Don't tell me the answer. Let me figure it out.
Synonyms: encontrar, investigar
Inherited from Old Spanish averiguar, from Late Latin vērificāre as a semi-learned term, with the prefix a- from Latin ad-. According to Coromines and Pascual, citing Rufino José Cuervo, it is first attested in a Fuero Juzgo from 1240.