rogar

/roˈɡaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to urge, solicit, ask for something

🙏 Latin rogare, to ask: the root inside interrogate

Rogar comes from Latin rogare, to ask. English keeps it in interrogate (to ask questions over and over), prerogative (the one asked first) and derogatory. In Spanish it's a pleading kind of asking: te ruego que vengas means I beg you to come.

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