mendicate

English

Etymology

From Latin mendicatus, past participle of mendicare (“to beg”).

Verb

mendicate (third-person singular simple present mendicates, present participle mendicating, simple past and past participle mendicated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To beg.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mendicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

mendicate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of mendicare
  2. second-person plural imperative of mendicare
  3. feminine plural of mendicato

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

mendīcāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of mendīcātus
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