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elaborate

English

Etymology

1575, from Late Latin ?lab?r?tus (worked out), past participle of ?lab?r? (to work out), from ?- (out, forth, fully) + labor (work, toil, exertion). More at e-, labour.

Pronunciation

  • Adjective: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA(key): /??læb???t/
  • Verb: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA(key): /??læb??e?t/

Adjective

elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)

  1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
    • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Translations

Verb

elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)

  1. (transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
    • 1871, "Bismarck", All the Year Round (volume 5, page 129)
      [] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
  2. (intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail
    What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?
    Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

Translations


Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /elabo?rate/

Verb

elaborate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of elaborar

Italian

Adjective

elaborate

  1. feminine plural of elaborato

Verb

elaborate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of elaborare
  2. second-person plural imperative of elaborare
  3. feminine plural of the past participle of elaborare

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /e?.la.bo??ra?.te/, [e???äbo???ä?t??]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.la.bo?ra.te/, [?l?b?????t??]

Verb

?lab?r?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?lab?r?

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magnificent

English

Etymology

From Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.), from magnus (great) + -ficens, a form of -ficiens, the regular form, in compounds, of faciens, a participle of facere (to do).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæ??n?f?s?nt/
  • Hyphenation: mag?nif?i?cent

Adjective

magnificent (comparative more magnificent, superlative most magnificent)

  1. Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
  2. Grand or noble in action.
  3. Exceptional for its kind.

Derived terms

  • magnificently
  • magnificent frigatebird

Related terms

  • magnificence
  • beneficent
  • maleficent
  • munificent

Translations

Further reading

  • magnificent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • magnificent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • magnificent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

magnificent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of magnific?

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