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supplicate
verb
to pray humbly to; entreat or petition humbly.
More about supplicate
Supplicate comes directly from Latin 蝉耻辫辫濒颈肠腻迟耻蝉, past participle of the verb 蝉耻辫辫濒颈肠腻谤别 鈥渢o sue for forgiveness or mercy, make a humble petition.鈥� The Latin verb is a derivative of the adjective supplex (stem supplic-) 鈥渂ringing peace, making humble petition.鈥� Supplex and 蝉耻辫辫濒颈肠腻谤别 come from the root 辫濒腻办-, plak-, the source of Latin 辫濒补肠脓谤别 鈥渢o please, be acceptable to鈥� (source of English placebo 鈥淚 shall please鈥� and pleasant, via Old French), and 辫濒腻肠腻谤别 鈥渢o conciliate, calm,鈥� whose past participle 辫濒腻肠腻迟耻蝉 is the source of English placate. Supplicate entered English in the 15th century.
how is supplicate used?
Alas! on my knees I supplicate you to forbear–Will you leave me a prey to Frederic?
I ask you but to extend to one whose fault was committed under strong temptation that mercy which even you yourself, Lord King, must one day supplicate at a higher tribunal, and for faults, perhaps, less venial.
More about luculent
English luculent comes straight from the Latin adjective 濒奴肠耻濒别苍迟耻蝉, a derivative of lux (stem 濒奴肠-) 鈥渓ight,鈥� from a very widespread Proto-Indo-European root leuk-, louk-, luk- 鈥渓ight, bright.鈥� (The suffixed form leuktom becomes leuhtan in Germanic, 濒脓辞丑迟 in Old English, and light in English.) Latin 濒奴肠耻濒别苍迟耻蝉 and English luculent are not much used in their literal senses but have a metaphorical sense like splendid and the colloquial British brilliant. Luculent entered English in the 15th century.
how is luculent used?
The thundering acclamations, which greeted the close of that luculent and powerful exposition, the zeal with which the concourse hailed him unanimously Savior of Rome and Father of his country …
… now he would favour us with a grace … expatiating on this text with so luculent a commentary, that Scott, who had been fumbling with his spoon long before he reached his Amen, could not help exclaiming as he sat down, ‘Well done, Mr. George!”
More about nummary
The adjective nummary comes straight from Latin 苍耻尘尘腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to coins or money,鈥� a derivative of nummus (also 苍奴尘耻蝉), the name of several silver or gold coins. The Latin nouns come from 苍辞没尘尘辞蝉 鈥渃urrent coin鈥� in a western Doric Greek dialect spoken in southern Italy and Sicily and equivalent to Greek 苍贸尘辞蝉 鈥渓aw, custom, something in customary or habitual use.鈥� Nummary entered English in the early 17th century.
how is nummary used?
… Re-coinages, which had the same Effect in depreciating nummary Denominations in France, that frequent and large Emissions of Paper-Money have in our Colonies …
His capital does not have a numerical or nummary value, but it nonetheless has a value, if only in the sustenance he gets out of putting it to productive use.