# entreat

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɪnˈtɹiːt/ · frequency rank #65,090

## Definitions
1. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
2. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
3. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
4. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
5. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
6. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
7. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
8. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
9. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
10. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.

## Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”), from Anglo-Norman entraiter, entretier (“to concern oneself with (something); to deal with (someone) in a specified manner; to have a conversation with (someone); to negotiate (with someone, or about something)”), Middle French entraiter, entraictier, and Old French entraictier (“to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + traiter (“to be concerned with (something); to treat (someone) in a specified way”) (from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to handle, manage; to drag, haul”), from trahō (“to drag, pull; etc.”) (see that entry for the further etymology) + -tō (frequentative suffix)).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English entrete (“agreement; negotiation; treatment of a subject in discourse”), from the verb.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/entreat