Etymology

emendicate

E1M3E1N1D2I1C3A1T1E1

Today it means: To beg. Full definition →

Latin emendicatus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromemendicatus
  2. English todayemendicate

From Latin emendicatus, past participle of emendicare (“to obtain by begging”). See mendicate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.