postulo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I demand, ask, request, desire.
- I pretend, claim.
- I prosecute, accuse, impeach, sue.
- (of things) I contain, measure.
- (of things) I need, require, call for, demand.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (ask, woo, request).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*preḱ-
Gloss
ask, woo, request
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
聞
Emoji
🙏
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- expostulate English
- expostulateth English
- expostulative English
- expostulatory English
- postulate English
- precarious English
- precarity English
- precatory English
- deprecatio Latin
- deprecor Latin
- dēprecātiōnem Latin
- dēprecātus Latin
- imprecari Latin
- imprecātiō Latin
- percontor Latin
- precarius Latin
- precativus Latin
- precor Latin
- precārius Latin
- precārī Latin
- prex Latin
- procus Latin
- *preḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti, *pr̥sḱéti Proto-Indo-European
- *fragjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frehnaną Proto-Germanic
- *frigjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frēgōną Proto-Germanic
- freġnan Old English
- *prositi Proto-Slavic
- anrheg Welsh
- rheg Welsh
- *ɸarsketi Proto-Celtic
- pirs Northern Kurdish
- *preš- Proto-Balto-Slavic