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Require comes from Old French requerre ‘to ask’, from Latin requīrō ‘to seek, ask for’, from re- + quaerō ‘to seek’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquaerō¹‘to seek’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErequīrō¹‘to seek, ask for’literally ‘to seek back’
3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400requerre¹‘to ask’
4. Englishearliest quotation 1470–1485require¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English require
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1470–1485, Capitulum XI: “I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders…”.