Where does “emendicate” come from?
emendicate (English) comes from Latin emendicatus, from Latin emendicare, from Latin emendico, from Latin mendīcō, from Latin mendicus, from Latin -icus, from Ancient Greek -ικός, from Ancient Greek -κός — -y, -ic.
emendicate (English): To beg
Ancestry of “emendicate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | emendicatus | begged |
| 2 | Latin | emendicare | present active infinitive of ēmendīcō;... |
| 3 | Latin | emendico | I beg, solicit |
| 4 | Latin | mendīcō | — |
| 5 | Latin | mendicus | beggarly, needy, indigent |
| 6 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |