explicatio
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From explico (“I explain”) + -tio (“suffix forming action noun”).
Noun
[edit]explicātiō f (genitive explicātiōnis); third declension
- The act of unfolding or unrolling.
- (of speech) An explanation, explication, exposition.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | explicātiō | explicātiōnēs |
genitive | explicātiōnis | explicātiōnum |
dative | explicātiōnī | explicātiōnibus |
accusative | explicātiōnem | explicātiōnēs |
ablative | explicātiōne | explicātiōnibus |
vocative | explicātiō | explicātiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit](all borrowings)
- → Catalan: explicació
- → English: explication
- → French: explication
- → Galician: explicación
- → Italian: esplicazione
- → Occitan: explicacion
- → Portuguese: explicação
- → Romanian: explicație
- → Russian: экспликация (eksplikacija)
- → Spanish: explicación
References
[edit]- “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.