supplico
See also: supplicò
Italian
Verb
supplico
Latin
Etymology
From sub- (“under, at the feet of, before”) + plicō (“fold, bend, roll up”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsup.pli.koː/, [ˈs̠ʊpːlʲɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsup.pli.ko/, [ˈsupːliko]
Verb
supplicō (present infinitive supplicāre, perfect active supplicāvī, supine supplicātum); first conjugation
- I pray or supplicate
- I humbly beseech or beg
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: supplicate
- French: supplier
- Italian: supplicare
- Occitan: suplicar
References
- “supplico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supplico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supplico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pray to God: supplicare deo (Sall. Iug. 63. 1)
- to pray to God: supplicare deo (Sall. Iug. 63. 1)