posco.
to beg, to demand, to request, to desire
Meaning & usage
to beg, to demand, to request, to desire
Poscor aliquid.
Poscor meum Laelapa.
to demand for punishment, to ask the surrender of
to call someone
Ego poscor Olympo!
Ad te confugio et supplex tua numina posco.
to ask in marriage, to demand one's hand
Filiam tuam mihi uxorem posco.
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *porskō (“to ask for; request; demand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti (“to keep asking; to question”), from *preḱ- (“to ask; to ask for”) + *-sḱéti (“imperfective suffix”). Latin -ēscō (inchoative suffix) derives from this ending. Cognates include Latin prex (“prayer”), procus (“suitor”), Sanskrit पृच्छति (pṛccháti), Old Armenian հարց (harcʻ), Old Church Slavonic просити (prositi), German forschen, and Old English friġnan (whence English frain).
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