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Require

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to need something for a particular purpose, or to demand it
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Stage 1 of 2
requirere
Latin · ancient
"to seek again, to need"
to seek again, to need, from re- (again) and quaerere (to seek)
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Stage 2 of 2
require
English · 1300s
"to need something as necessary or essential"
settled as the English word for needing something as necessary
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