Word Origin Summary

Explicāre is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• explicar

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• eksploatować

  Polish · derived from

• esploitier

  French · inherited from

• explicate

  English · derived from

• spiegar

  Venetian · inherited from

• explicar

  Interlingua · derived from

• esplicare

  Italian · borrowed from

• explicar

  Catalan · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root