suppliant

English

WOTD – 28 February 2007    

Etymology

From French suppliant, present participle of supplier.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsʌplɪənt/

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Adjective

suppliant (comparative more suppliant, superlative most suppliant)

1. Entreating with humility.
   • Milton

     to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

Translations

Translations

• French: suppliant (fr) m
• Polish: błagający, błagalny, proszalny

• Spanish: suplicante

Noun

suppliant (plural suppliants)

1. One who pleads or requests earnestly.
   • 1963: I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, Medea, trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)

Synonyms

• beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

Translations

Translations

• Polish: suplikant m

Related terms

• suppliance
• suppliantly
• supplicant
• supplicate

• supplicatingly
• supplication
• supplicator
• supplicatory

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French

Verb

suppliant

1. Present participle of supplier.

Adjective

suppliant m (feminine suppliante, masculine plural suppliants, feminine plural suppliantes)

1. suppliant, begging, pleading, imploring

Noun

suppliant m (plural suppliants; feminine suppliante, plural suppliantes)

1. supplicant