explicatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *pel-

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.

Latin plicō

Latin explicō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin explicātiō

From explicō (“to explain”) + -tiō (“suffix forming action noun”).

Noun

explicātiō f (genitive explicātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of unfolding or unrolling.
2. (of speech) An explanation, explication, exposition.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	explicātiō	explicātiōnēs
genitive	explicātiōnis	explicātiōnum
dative	explicātiōnī	explicātiōnibus
accusative	explicātiōnem	explicātiōnēs
ablative	explicātiōne	explicātiōnibus
vocative	explicātiō	explicātiōnēs

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.