supplication

From Middle English supplicacioun, supplication, from Old French supplication, from Latin supplicatio, supplicationem, from supplicare (“to supplicate”).

• IPA^(key): /sʌplɪˈkeɪʃən/

supplication (countable and uncountable, plural supplications)

1. An act of supplicating; a humble request.
2. A prayer or entreaty to a god.
3. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a solemn service or day decreed for giving formal thanks to the gods for victory, etc.
4. The process by which a doctorate at Oxford university is officially requested after a thesis has been approved.

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin supplicātiōnem.

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supplication f (plural supplications)

1. supplication

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• “supplication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.