entreat
/ɪnˈtɹit/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.32 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you be ſhe, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me ſpeake the meſſage I am ſent on."
- "My Lord vve muſt entreate the time alone."
- "Our tyred lymbes, bruſ'd in the morning fight, / Intreat ſoft reſt, and gentle huſht repoſe."
- "Thy Dukedome I reſigne, and doe entreat / Thou pardon me my vvrongs: […]"
- "And the daughter of Tyre ſhall be there with a gift, euen the rich among the people ſhall intreate thy fauour."
- "Sir, I have made ſo ill uſe of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to intreat that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book; […]"
Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”), from Anglo-Norman entraiter, entretier (“to concern oneself with (something); to deal with (someone) in a specified manner; to have a conversation with (someone); to negotiate (with someone, or about something)”), Middle French entraiter, entraictier, and Old French entraictier (“to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + traiter (“to be concerned with (something); to treat (someone) in a specified way”) (from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to handle, manage; to drag, haul”), from trahō (“to drag, pull; etc.”) (see that entry for the further etymology) + -tō (frequentative suffix)). The noun is derived from Late Middle English entrete (“agreement; negotiation; treatment of a subject in discourse”), from the verb.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: entreten, entraiter, entraictier, tractāre, entrete
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈtɹit/
- British English: /ɪnˈtɹiːt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
entreats (present, singular)
entreating (participle, present)
entreated (participle, past)
entreated (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
entreated (first person, past)
entreatest (archaic, present)
entreated (past, second person)
entreatedst (archaic, past)
entreateth (archaic, present)
entreated (past, singular)
Derived Forms
entract
entreatable
entreatance
entreated
entreater
entreatful
entreating
entreatingly
entreatise
entreative
entreatment
entreaty
Phrases
over-entreat