prostituēt

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Latvian

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Etymology

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Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin prōstituō (to prostitute), made into a 2nd-conjugation verb (ending -ēt).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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prostituēt (transitive, 2nd conjugation, present prostituēju, prostituē, prostituē, past prostituēju)

  1. to prostitute (to make someone work as a prostitute, i.e., having sex for profit)
  2. (figuratively) to use in some humiliating way; to corrupt
    tautas partija prostituē gan politiku, gan varu, gan valsti un vispar visu, ko vien var prostituētthe people's party prostitutes the politician, the power (= government), the country and in general everything that one can prostitute

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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