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English word require comes from Latin quaerere, Latin re-, Old French (842-ca. 1400) querre (To seek; to search for.)

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quaerere (Latin)

re- (Latin)

Again; prefix added to various words to indicate an action being done again, or like the other usages indicated above under English.. Back, backwards.

querre (Old French)

To seek; to search for.

re- (Old French)

Re- (again; once more).

requiro (Latin)

I require, seek, ask for, request, need or miss.

requerre (Old French)

To ask. To attack. To demand, require. To search; to look for.

*requærere (Vulgar Latin)

require (English)

(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th-17thc.]. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15thc.]. To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18thc.]. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14thc.].

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