explico Latin · revision 10193

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pleḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɛk.splɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɛk.spli.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''explicō''' (present infinitive explicāre, perfect active explicāvī or explicuī, supine explicātum or explicitum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect ''explicāvī'', ''explicātum'' is regular in early Latin, ''explicuī'', ''explicitum'' becomes common after Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|plicō|t2=to fold]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Etymonline traces ⟨plicāre⟩ to [[ine-pro|*pleḱ-|t=to plait]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are Plautus, of unfolding, expanding and displaying.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense was to unfold, unroll, straighten, as of cloth in Cicero; then to spread out, extend, and in military use to deploy a line of battle; to extricate from difficulties; to disentangle, settle, solve a problem; to set out in words, explain, as from Varro; to display; and in Nepos to carry out, accomplish.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to explain, unfold, spread out, make clear.^(Stelten 1995) English ''explicate'' (1530s) is from its participle ''explicātus''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of unfolding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of explaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of spreading out and solving.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''explicate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|unfold]], unroll, straighten.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To extricate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To disentangle, [[m|en|solve]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To spread out, ''(military)'' to [[m|en|deploy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|explain]], set out in words.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To accomplish, finish.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[explicābilis]]

+ * [[explicātiō]]

+ * [[explicātor]]

+ * [[explicātrix]]

+ * [[explicātus]]

+ * [[inexplicatus]]

+ * [[inexplicitus]]

+ * [[perexplicatus]]

+ * [[explicanter]]

+ * [[explicātē]]

+ * [[explicitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[applicō]]

+ * [[circumplicō]]

+ * [[complicō]]

+ * [[displicō]]

+ * [[implicō]]

+ * [[interplicō]]

+ * [[plicō]]

+ * [[replicō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}