PRAY Copy link • PRAYv. Transitively, To supplicate, entreat, rogare, orare, a person for anything, aliquem aliquid (to address with prayer or entreaty): petere, poscere (to petition, demand): contendere (to pray earnestly, urge a request): flagitare, efflagitare (with vehemence): all with aliquid ab aliquo: precibus exposcere (to pray with a vehement demand): implorare (to implore anyone, aliquem, for anything, aliquid): obtestari, obsecrare, more strongly omnibus precibus orare et obtestari, omnibus (or infimis) precibus petere (to pray earnestly and imploringly): supplicare alicui pro re; petere, postulare suppliciter, aliquid ab aliquo, orare aliquem supplicibus verbis, orare or rogare aliquem suppliciter (to entreat humbly and submissively). To pray and beseech, (The words are found in this connection and order.) rogare atque orare; petere et contendere; orare et obtestari; orare obtestarique; orare atque obsecrare; implorare atque obtestari; obsecrare atque obtestari (and vice versa); precari atque orare; petere ac deprecari (Caes., B.G., 2, 31); omnibus precibus, paene lacrimis etiam obsecrare aliquem; aliquem ita rogare, ut majore studio rogare non possim: to pray for anyone, deprecari pro aliquo, deprecatorem se praebere pro alicujus periculo (to intercede for, in order to avert an evil, etc.). Intransitively, To offer a petition, precari: preces or precationem facere: precatione uti (general term): preces fundere (in the poets and Tac.): supplicare (to pray with bended knees). To pray to God, precari Deum or ad Deum; orare or invocare Deum; Deo supplicare; Deo preces adhibere: to pray God that he would, etc., precari a Deo ut, etc.; for anything, vota suscipere or nuncupare pro re. “Pray” inserted in a sentence, quaeso. In a vehement question tandem may be used: “in what way, pray?” quo tandem modo