supplicate

Meaning

1. (transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
2. (archaic, specifically, transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
3. (specifically, transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
4. (transitive) To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
5. (intransitive) To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
6. (intransitive, specifically) To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.

Synonyms

entreat

beseech

implore

pray

🛐

beg

plead

petition

solicit

ask

importune

invoke

offer

offer up

pacify

pester

put in

request

tap

worship

call upon

propi-tiate

adjure

implore for mercy

adore

anoa

appeal

appeal to

appease

bespeak

crave

deify

Translations

suplicar

supplier

supplicare

anflehen

implorer

rogar

flehen

pedir

implorare

ικετεύω

prier

🛐

rogar

ersuchen

تضرع

bitten

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsʌplɪkeɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: supplicaten

Inherited from Middle English: -en

In summary

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”)).