supplicate

英式音标：supplicate怎么读

美式音标：supplicate怎么读

词汇归类： GRE

近义词： plead

supplicate词义

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vt. 恳求，哀求；恳请vi. 哀求；恳请；祈求

词态变化

第三人称单数: supplicates;过去式: supplicated;过去分词: supplicated;现在分词: supplicating;

中文词源

supplicate 祈求，哀求

来自拉丁语 supplicare,乞求，乞讨，来自 sub,向下，-plic,弯，转，词源同 complicate,triplicate. -ate,动词后缀。


supplicate英文词源

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supplicate
supplicate: [15] Someone who supplicates is etymologically ‘bending or folding up underneath’ – hence ‘kneeling down to pray’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin supplicāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘down, underneath’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (a relative of English fold). Also formed from sub- and the base *plic- was Latin supplex ‘bending under’, hence ‘submissive’, from which English gets supple [13].
=> complicate, fold, ply, supple
supplicate (v.)
early 15c., "beg for, beseech," back-formation from supplication or else from Latin supplicatus, past participle of supplicare "plead humbly, beseech, kneel down." Related: Supplicated; supplicating.