different between mendicant vs mendicate

English

Etymology

From Latin mend?c?ns, present participle of mend?c? (“beg”). Compare French mendiant.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?n.d?.k?nt/

Adjective

mendicant (not comparable)

1. Depending on alms for a living.
2. Of or pertaining to a beggar.
3. Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

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Translations

Noun

mendicant (plural mendicants)

1. A pauper who lives by begging.
2. A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

Translations

Related terms

• mendicant order

Latin

Verb

mend?cant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of mend?c?

English

Etymology

From Latin mendicatus, past participle of mendicare (“to beg”).

Verb

mendicate (third-person singular simple present mendicates, present participle mendicating, simple past and past participle mendicated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To beg.

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Related terms

• mendicant

Anagrams

• Camdenite, meditance, mentacide

Italian

Verb

mendicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of mendicare
2. second-person plural imperative of mendicare
3. feminine plural of mendicato

Anagrams

• decimante, medicante

Latin

Participle

mend?c?te

1. vocative masculine singular of mend?c?tus