explicatio

Latin

Etymology

From explico (“I explain”) +‎ -tio (“suffix forming action noun”).

Noun

explicātiō f (genitive explicātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of unfolding or unrolling.
2. (of speech) An explanation, explication, exposition.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	explicātiō	explicātiōnēs
Genitive	explicātiōnis	explicātiōnum
Dative	explicātiōnī	explicātiōnibus
Accusative	explicātiōnem	explicātiōnēs
Ablative	explicātiōne	explicātiōnibus
Vocative	explicātiō	explicātiōnēs

Descendants

(all borrowings)

• → Catalan: explicació
• → English: explication
• → French: explication
• → Galician: explicación
• → Italian: esplicazione
• → Occitan: explicacion
• → Portuguese: explicação
• → Romanian: explicație
• → Russian: экспликация (eksplikacija)
• → Spanish: explicación

References

• “explicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “explicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• explicatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.