require
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French requerre (French: requérir), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *requærere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin requīrō (“I require, seek, ask for”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪə/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: re‧quire
Verb
Lua error in Module:en-headword at line 1142: Legacy parameter 1=STEM no longer supported, just use 'en-verb' without params
- (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th-17thc.]
- Template:RQ:Mlry MrtArthr2
- I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:
- I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.
- Template:RQ:Mlry MrtArthr2
- To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14thc.]
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."
- 2009, Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 29 December:
- ‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas […], that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15thc.]
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.
- 2009, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 February:
- A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18thc.]
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
- After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.
- 2007, Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian, 5 December:
- The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
ask — see ask
to demand, call for authoritatively
|
to need
|
to demand of (someone)
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
|
Further reading
- “require”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “require”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “require”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Interlingua
Verb
require
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) requīre
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/aɪə(ɹ)
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English control verbs
- Interlingua non-lemma forms
- Interlingua verb forms
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms