English
flagitation
Flagitation comes from Latin flagitatio ‘a pressing request, demand’, and goes back to flāgitō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitō‘to demand, require’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagitatio‘a pressing request, demand’
- Englishearliest quotation 1858flagitation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflāgitō‘to demand, require’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagitatio‘a pressing request, demand’
- Englishearliest quotation 1858flagitation
Earliest quotation: 1858, Thomas Carlyle: “By French industry and flagitation, the Swedish Army was…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂- ‘to swing back and forth’
Today it means
noun begging; passionate asking
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flāgitō / flagitation