explodo Latin · revision 36581

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=second half of the 2nd century BC, Afranius|origins=la plaudō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈspɫoː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈsplɔː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''explōdō''' (present infinitive explōdere, perfect active explōsī, supine explōsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The spelling ''explaudō'' is also found, in Lucretius.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|plaudō|t2=to clap]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Georges cites it first from a fragment of Afranius, of a man driven off ''in Arpīnōs'', to the people of Arpinum.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) It was originally a word of the theatre, said of driving a player off the stage by clapping and hooting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero writes that an actor is hissed and clapped off, ''exsībilātur et explōditur'', and that if Aesopus is even a little hoarse he is driven off.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Lucretius speaks of driving away the night with clapping wings.^(Georges 1913) From this it came to mean to cast out, as when Seneca says of people struggling with the waves that fortune will not even cast them up on the sand,^(OLD 2012) and to reject or condemn an opinion: Cicero speaks of an argument ''explōsum et ēiectum'', hooted off and thrown out.^(OLD 2012) Tertullian uses it of breaking wind.^(Georges 1913)

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+ English [[m|en|explode]], first recorded in the 1530s, at first meant to reject with scorn, a sense that survives in ''an exploded theory''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * second half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius uses it of driving a man away.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses the form ''explaudō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of actors hissed off and of rejected arguments.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of fortune casting people out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English borrows it as [[m|en|explode]], “to reject with scorn”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drive (an actor) off the stage by [[m|en|clap|alt=clapping]] or [[m|en|hiss|alt=hissing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|eject]], cast out.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|reject]], condemn (an opinion or a person's claims).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[explōsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plaudō]]

+ * [[en|explode]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}