supplicate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsʌplɪkeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈsəpləˌkeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈsʌpləˌkeɪt/
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PIE word *upó From Late Middle English supplicaten (“to request (that someone do something)”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin supplicātus (“prayed”) + Middle English -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Supplicātus is the perfect passive participle of supplicō (“to pray, supplicate; to beg, humbly beseech”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from sup- (variant of sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, beneath, under’)) + plicō (“to bend, flex; to fold; to roll up”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold; to plait, weave”)).

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aramaic: כפש — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Armenian: աղաչել (aġačʻel) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Armenian: աղերսել (aġersel) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Armenian: հայցել (haycʻel) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Old Armenian: աղերսեմ (ałersem) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Old Armenian: հայցեմ (haycʻem) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Assamese: খাটা (khata) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Assamese: খটা (khota) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Catalan: suplicar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 哀告 (āigào) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 丐乞 (gàiqǐ) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 懇求 /恳求 (kěnqiú) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 蘄求 /蕲求 (qíqiú) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 祈求 (qíqiú) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Chinese Mandarin: 求告 (qiúgào) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Esperanto: petegi — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Finnish: anoa — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Finnish: pyytää — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• French: supplier — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• German: anflehen — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• German: ersuchen — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽 (aihtrōn) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Greek: ικετεύω (iketévo) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Ancient Greek: ἀντῐβολέω (antĭboléō) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Ancient Greek: ἱκετεύω (hiketeúō) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Hungarian: kér — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Hungarian: könyörög — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Italian: supplicare — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Japanese: 哀願する (aigan suru) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Ladino: arogar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Latin: supplicō — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Latin: obsecrō — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Latin: precor — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Latin: prehēnsō — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Mongolian: гуйх (gujx) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Mongolian: ᠭᠤᠶᠤᠬᠤ (ɣuyuqu) — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Occitan: suplicar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Occitan: sosplegar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Portuguese: suplicar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Portuguese: deprecar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Portuguese: implorar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Romanian: suplica — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Spanish: suplicar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Spanish: deprecar — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Turkish: rica etmek — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Turkish: yalvarmak — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Volapük: begön — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Welsh: erfyn — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
• Finnish: anoa — to make a formal request (to Oxford University) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself
• Old Armenian: աղաչեմ (ałačʻem) — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Finnish: anoa — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Finnish: pyytää — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• German: bitten — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽 (aihtrōn) — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Latin: supplicō — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Latin: comprecor — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Middle English: mensken — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Old English: þingian — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Turkish: yakarmak — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Turkish: yalvarmak — to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
• Finnish: anoa — to ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority
• Finnish: pyytää — to ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority
• Middle English: axen — to ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority
• Armenian: աղաչել (aġačʻel) — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Assamese: খাট (khat) — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Assamese: খাটা (khata) — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Assamese: খটা (khota) — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Finnish: anoa — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Finnish: pyytää — to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority
• Finnish: anoa — of a member of the University of Oxford, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself