plead: [13] Essentially plead and plea are the same word. Both go back ultimately to Latin placitum ‘something pleasant’, hence ‘something that pleases both sides’, ‘something agreed upon’, and finally ‘opinion, decision’. This was a noun formed from the past participle of placēre ‘please’ (source of English please). It passed into Old French as plaid ‘agreement, discussion, lawsuit’, and formed the basis of a verb plaidier, from which (via Anglo-Norman pleder) English got plead. In later Old French plaid became plait, and Anglo-Norman took it over as plai or ple – whence English plea [13]. => plea, please
plead (v.)
mid-13c., "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French pleder, Old French plaidier, "plead at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum (see plea). Sense of "request, beg" first recorded late 14c. Related: Pleaded; pleading; pleadingly.
例文
1. It was no defence to plead that they were only obeying orders.
彼らは命令に従って足が立たないだけだと弁明した。
2.They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
彼らは彼に衝突からの脱退を要求する。
3.He would plead the cause of Russian unity.
彼はロシアの統一を公然と支持する。
4.Are you ready to plead against the case offered by the defendant？