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explodo

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ex- (out) +‎ plaudō (I clap; I applaud).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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explōdō (present infinitive explōdere, perfect active explōsī, supine explōsum); third conjugation

  1. to eject (originally drive an actor off a stage by clapping/booing)

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Friulian: esplodi
  • Italian: esplodere
  • Piedmontese: esplòde
  • Portuguese: explodir

References

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  • explodo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • explodo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • explodo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere

Portuguese

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Verb

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explodo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of explodir