Etymology

supplicant

sup·pli·cant
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Today it means: begging, pleading, supplicating Full definition →

Latin supplicans
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  1. Latin · derived fromsupplicans“supplicating, bowing down”
  2. English todaysupplicant

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

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