explorate

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

explorate (third-person singular simple present explorates, present participle explorating, simple past and past participle explorated)

(obsolete) To explore.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  they will nevertheleſs exclude their horns, and therewith explorate their way as before

References edit

“explorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin edit

Verb edit

explōrāte

second-person plural present active imperative of explōrō

References edit

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

Spanish edit

Verb edit

explorate

second-person singular voseo imperative of explorar combined with te