explorate

English

Etymology

From Latin explorare, exploratum.

Verb

explorate (third-person singular simple present explorates, present participle explorating, simple past and past participle explorated)

1. (obsolete) To explore.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     they will nevertheleſs exclude their horns, and therewith explorate their way as before

References

• “explorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

explōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explōrō

Adverb

explōrātē (comparative explōrātius, superlative explōrātissimē)

1. Securely, certainly, while knowing the reason (adverb derived from the participle exploratus).

References

• “explorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “explorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “explorate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

explorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of explorar combined with te