postulo

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pusˈtu.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pusˈtu.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [posˈtu.lo]

postulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of postular

From postuli (“to require, claim, demand”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /posˈtulo/

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• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: pos‧tu‧lo

postulo (accusative singular postulon, plural postuloj, accusative plural postulojn)

1. demand

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔs.tu.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔstulo
• Hyphenation: pò‧stu‧lo

postulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of postulare

Related to poscō (“beg, demand, request, desire”):

• Perhaps derived from *post-, an unattested supine stem of poscō, from *poskt-, itself from earlier *porkt- + diminutive endings; compare ustulō.
• Alternatively, derived from *postulum, from Proto-Italic *porsk-tlom (see *-klom); compare postiliō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.tʊ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.tu.lo]

postulō (present infinitive postulāre, perfect active postulāvī, supine postulātum); first conjugation

1. to demand, ask, request, desire

   Synonyms: petō, poscō

   • 59 BCE, Cicero, Pro Flacco 26:

     Quod quidem ego nōn modo nōn postulō, sed contrā, iūdicēs, vōs ōrō et obtestor ut tōtam causam quam maximē intentīs oculīs, ut aiunt, acerrimē contemplēminī.

     But I not only do not ask that, gentlemen, but on the contrary, I beg and beseech you to the best of your ability to examine the whole case most closely and with steady eyes, as the saying goes.

2. to pretend, claim
3. to prosecute, accuse, impeach, sue
4. (of things) to contain, measure
5. (of things) to need, require, call for, demand

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “postulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “postulo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
    
  • to demand 48 per cent: quaternas centesimas postulare (Att. 5. 21. 11)
    
  • to accuse a person of extortion (to recover the sums extorted): postulare aliquem repetundarum or de repetundis
    

• Hyphenation: pos‧tu‧lo

postulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of postular

• IPA^(key): /posˈtulo/ [posˈt̪u.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: pos‧tu‧lo

postulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of postular