exploro
See also: exploró
Catalan
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out, away; throughout”) + plōrō (“cry”). The original meaning was maybe "to scout the hunting area for game by means of shouting".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈsploː.roː/, [ɛkˈspɫoː.roː]
Verb
explōrō (present infinitive explōrāre, perfect active explōrāvī, supine explōrātum); first conjugation
- I explore
- I test
- I investigate
Inflection
Descendants
References
- exploro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exploro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exploro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
- to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 473
Portuguese
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