Etymograph

English

flagitate

Flagitate comes from Latin flāgitātus ‘demanded’, and goes back to flāgitō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitō‘to demand, ask urgingly’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitātus‘demanded’perfect passive participle of flāgitō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1858–1865flagitate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitō‘to demand, ask urgingly’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitātus‘demanded’perfect passive participle of flāgitō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1858–1865flagitate

Earliest quotation: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia: “Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz,…”

first attested First attested in 1623 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin flāgitātus, perfect passive participle of flāgitō (‘to demand, ask urgingly’), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂- ‘to swing back and forth’

frail, flail, flagellation, flagellum, 7 more

Today it means

verb To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin flāgitō / flagitate

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