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English
Etymology
From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
supplicant (comparative more supplicant, superlative most supplicant)
- begging, pleading, supplicating
Translations
Noun
supplicant (plural supplicants)
- one who comes to humbly ask or petition
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185:It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye.
- (networking) A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
Translations
Latin
Verb
supplicant
- third-person plural present active indicative of supplicō