explicate

English

Etymology

From Latin explicāre, present active infinitive of explicō (“unfold", "to explain”).

Verb

explicate (third-person singular simple present explicates, present participle explicating, simple past and past participle explicated)

1. (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.

   My homework is to explicate a poem.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to develop a principle, theory, etc.

Related terms

• explication
• explicative
• explicator
• explicit

Translations

explain meticulously

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: vysvětlit (cs), objasnit (cs), ozřejmit (cs), interpretovat (cs)

Finnish: selittää (fi) German: explizieren (de) Romanian: explica (ro)

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Latin

Adverb

explicātē (not comparable)

1. clearly, plainly

Verb

explicāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of explicō