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Supplicate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to ask for something humbly and earnestly, as in prayer or a plea
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Stage 1 of 2
supplicare
Latin · ancient
"to kneel down, to beg humbly"
to kneel down, to beg humbly, from sub- (under) and plicare (to fold)
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Stage 2 of 2
supplicate
English · 1400s
"to ask for something humbly and earnestly"
settled as the English word for asking for something humbly and earnestly
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