Wiktionary

request

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkwɛst/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • Hyphenation: re‧quest

Verb

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request (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)

  1. (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
    The corporal requested reinforcements.
    I have requested that the furniture be moved back to its original position.
    • 1979 December 29, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder & Related Matters”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 6:
      Copies of records of Spear's long-distance telephone calls (which had been requested by Norfolk County police from the telephone company)
  2. (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.
    Synonyms: ask, bespeak, call for
    She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.

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Noun

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request (plural requests)

  1. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
    Synonyms: asking, beseech, prayer, wish
  2. A formal message requesting something.
    Synonyms: petition, postulation
  3. Condition of being sought after.
    Synonym: demand
    • 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 49:
      I do not doubt, but many Great and more Noble Uſes would have been made of ſuch Conqueſts or Diſcoveries, if they had fallen to the ſhare of the Greeks and Romans in thoſe Ages, when Knowledge and Fame were in as great Requeſt, as endleſs Gains and Wealth are among us now; [...]
  4. (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
    The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.
  5. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Dutch: request
  • → Japanese: リクエスト (rikuesuto)
  • → Korean: 리퀘스트 (rikweseuteu)

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English request. Doublet of rekest.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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request n or m (plural requests, diminutive requestje n)

  1. (networking) request (message sent over network)
    Synonym: verzoek
    Stuur even een request naar die API. ― Send a request to that API real quick.
Usage notes
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  • Semantically and etymologically differentiated from rekest, which has an archaic spelling request (see Etymology 2 below); rekest (which is borrowed from French) is a general word for any type of request, whereas request (as borrowed from English) has a different pronunciation and is limited to computing contexts.

Etymology 2

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See rekest.

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Noun

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request n (plural requesten, diminutive requestje n)

  1. Obsolete spelling of rekest.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French requeste, from Vulgar Latin *requaesita; equivalent to re- +‎ quest.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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request (plural requestes)

  1. A request or petition; a pleading or asking.
  2. (Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after.
  3. (Late Middle English) An adventure or heroic journey.

Descendants

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