Etymograph

English

postulate

Postulate comes from Latin postulō ‘to demand, ask, request, desire’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulō‘to demand, ask, request, desire’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulātus
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulātum
  4. Englishtodaypostulate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulō‘to demand, ask, request, desire’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulātus
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulātum
  4. Englishtodaypostulate

The story

Borrowed from Latin postulātum, a neuter nominalization of postulātus, perfect passive participle of postulō, possibly from poscō.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- ‘to ask’

prayer, pray, arrogant, arrogance, precarious, derogatory, prerogative, deprecation, derogation, 26 more

Another origin of postulate

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulō‘to request’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpostulātusperfect passive participle of postulō
  3. Englishtodaypostulate

Today it means

noun Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.

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

Etymograph / Latin postulō / postulate

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