explicatio
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Etymology
From explico (“I explain”) + -tio (“suffix forming action noun”).
Noun
explicātiō f (genitive explicātiōnis); third declension
- The act of unfolding or unrolling.
- (of speech) An explanation, explication, exposition.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
(all borrowings)
- → Catalan: explicació
- → English: explication
- → French: explication
- → Galician: explicación
- → Italian: esplicazione
- → Occitan: explicacion
- → Portuguese: explicação
- → Romanian: explicație
- → Russian: экспликация (eksplikacija)
- → Spanish: explicación
References
- “explicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “explicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- explicatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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