entreat

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) Senses relating to asking or pleading.
2. (transitive) Senses relating to asking or pleading.
3. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to asking or pleading.
4. (intransitive) Senses relating to asking or pleading.
5. (archaic, intransitive) Senses relating to asking or pleading.
6. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
7. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
8. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.

Noun

Synonym of entreaty (“an act of asking earnestly or begging for something”); an appeal, a plea.

Synonyms

beg

beseech

implore

plead

supplicate

solicit

request

pray

🛐

ask

appeal

importune

petition

press

adjure

urge

wheedle

prevail upon

appease

plead with

bid

coax

pacify

crave

conjure

ask for

pester

pledge

promise

put in

quieten

soothe

sue

tap

tempt

beg hard

venerate

worship

yearn

beg for

try to persuade

request earnestly

talk amorously

ask for something

propi-tiate

ask earnestly

persuade by entreaty

ache

make an appeal

adoration

anoa

Translations

supplier

implorar

rogar

supplicare

anflehen

implorer

suplicar

suplicar

rogar

prier

🛐

implorare

pedir

bitten

conjurar

precor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈtɹiːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: entreten

In summary

The verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”), from Anglo-Norman entraiter, entretier (“to concern oneself with (something); to deal with (someone) in a specified manner; to have a conversation with (someone); to negotiate (with someone, or about something)”), Middle French entraiter, entraictier, and Old French entraictier (“to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + traiter (“to be concerned with (something); to treat (someone) in a specified way”) (from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to handle, manage; to drag, haul”), from trahō (“to drag, pull; etc.”) (see that entry for the further etymology) + -tō (frequentative suffix)).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English entrete (“agreement; negotiation; treatment of a subject in discourse”), from the verb.