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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out”) + plaudō (“I clap; I applaud”).
Pronunciation
Verb
explōdō (present infinitive explōdere, perfect active explōsī, supine explōsum); third conjugation
- to eject (originally drive an actor off a stage by clapping/booing)
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
Portuguese
Verb
explodo
- first-person singular present indicative of explodir