expostulate
Meaningto demand out
Common meaning: to protest
- exout
- postulto demand, requestLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1407 · scan
- ateverb or adjective ending: to make, having
‘out’ + ‘to demand, request’ → expostulate
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin postulō ‘to demand, request’.
Roots
- postulō, -āre Latin “to demand, request”
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