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Catalan
Verb
exploro
- first-person singular present indicative of explorar
Galician
Verb
exploro
- first-person singular present indicative of explorar
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out, away; throughout”) + plōrō (“cry”). The original meaning was maybe "to scout the hunting area for game by means of shouting".
Pronunciation
Verb
explōrō (present infinitive explōrāre, perfect active explōrāvī, supine explōrātum); first conjugation
- to investigate, search out, seek, discover, examine, explore
- Synonyms: scīscitor, quaerō, inquīrō, scrūtor, requīrō, interrogō, percontor, scīscō, investīgō, indāgō
- to spy out, reconnoitre
- to test, try, put to the proof
- Synonyms: perīclitor, experior, probō, temptō, spectō
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References
- “exploro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exploro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exploro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 473
Portuguese
Verb
exploro
- first-person singular present indicative of explorar
Spanish
Verb
exploro
- first-person singular present indicative of explorar