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一、pray是什么意思

1、pray 祈祷，祈求，恳求

2、来自古法语preier,祈祷，祈求，来自拉丁语precari,乞求，要求，恳求，来自pie*prek,要求，恳求，词源同precarious,deprecate,postulate.

二、pray的用法

1、pray

2、pray: [13] latin precārī meant ‘ask for, entreat, pray’ (it has given english deprecate [17] and imprecation [16]). in vulgar latin it became *precāre, which passed into english via old french preier. the noun prayer [13] goes back ultimately to the latin adjective precārius ‘obtained by asking or praying’ (source also of english precarious), which was derived from precārī.=> deprecate, imprecation, precarious

3、pray (v.)

4、early 13c., "ask earnestly, beg," also (c. 1300) "pray to a god or saint," from old french preier "to pray" (c.900, modern french prier), from vulgar latin *precare (also source of italian pregare), from latin precari "ask earnestly, beg, entreat," from *prex (plural preces, genitive precis) "prayer, request, entreaty," from pie root *prek- "to ask, request, entreat" (cognates: sanskrit prasna-, avestan frashna- "question;" old church slavonic prositi, lithuanian prasyti "to ask, beg;" old high german frahen, german fragen, old english fricgan "to ask" a question). parenthetical expression i pray you, "please, if you will," attested from 1510s, contracted to pray 16c. related: prayed; praying. praying mantis attested from 1809. the "gardener's monthly" of july 1861 lists other names for it as camel cricket, soothsayer, and rear horse.

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