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exploro
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See also: exploró
Catalan
Verb
exploro
Galician
Verb
exploro
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 Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈspɫoː.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈsplɔː.ro]
Verb
explōrō (present infinitive explōrāre, perfect active explōrāvī, supine explōrātum); first conjugation
- to investigate, search out, seek, discover, examine, explore
- to spy out, reconnoitre
- to test, try, put to the proof
- Synonyms: perīclitor, experior, probō, temptō, spectō
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: esplorar
- → Catalan: explorar
- → English: explore
- → French: explorer
- → Romanian: explora
- → Friulian: esplorâ
- → Galician: explorar
- → Italian: esplorare
- → Leonese: esplorare
- → Occitan: explorar
- → Piedmontese: esploré
- → Portuguese: explorar
- → Sicilian: sprurari (semi-learned)
- → Spanish: explorar
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, →ISBN, page 473
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Portuguese
Verb
exploro
Spanish
Verb
exploro
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