explodo

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- (“out”) + plaudō (“to clap; to applause”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    explōdō (present infinitive explōdere, perfect active explōsī, supine explōsum); third conjugation

    1. to eject (originally drive an actor off a stage by clapping/booing)

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • → English: explode
    • → Friulian: esplodi
    • → Italian: esplodere
    • → Piedmontese: esplòde
    • → Portuguese: explodir

    References

    • “explodo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “explodo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “explodo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /isˈplo.du/, /esˈplo.du/

    • Hyphenation: ex‧plo‧do

    Verb

    explodo

    1. (Brazilian Portuguese spelling) first-person singular present indicative of explodir