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posco.

to beg, to demand, to request, to desire

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈpɔs.koː]Classical-Latin[ˈpɔs.ko]
  1. to beg, to demand, to request, to desire

    conjugation-3 · no-supine
    Poscor aliquid.
    Poscor meum Laelapa.
  2. to demand for punishment, to ask the surrender of

    conjugation-3 · no-supine
  3. to call someone

    conjugation-3 · no-supine
    Ego poscor Olympo!
    Ad te confugio et supplex tua numina posco.
  4. to ask in marriage, to demand one's hand

    conjugation-3 · no-supine
    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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