exploratio

Latin

Etymology

explōrō (“to explore, investigate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.spɫoːˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.sploˈrat.t͡si.o]

Noun

explōrātiō f (genitive explōrātiōnis); third declension

1. an examination, exploration
2. (military) spying

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	explōrātiō	explōrātiōnēs
genitive	explōrātiōnis	explōrātiōnum
dative	explōrātiōnī	explōrātiōnibus
accusative	explōrātiōnem	explōrātiōnēs
ablative	explōrātiōne	explōrātiōnibus
vocative	explōrātiō	explōrātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: exploració
• → French: exploration
  • → Dutch: exploratie
    • → Indonesian: eksplorasi
• → Italian: esplorazione
• → Portuguese: exploração
• → Romanian: explorație
• → Spanish: exploración

References

• “exploratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exploratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers