different between explicative vs explicate

English

Etymology

From Latin explic?t?vus, from explic? (“to unfold, open out”).

Adjective

explicative (comparative more explicative, superlative most explicative)

1. Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.

   Synonym: explicatory

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.spli.ka.tiv/
• Homophone: explicatives

Adjective

explicative

1. feminine singular of explicatif

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin explic?re, present active infinitive of explic? (“unfold, explain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kspl??ke?t/
• (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??kspl??ke?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?pli?cate

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.

   Synonyms: elucidate, analyze

Related terms

• complicate
• explication
• explicative
• explicator
• explicit

Translations

Adjective

explicate (comparative more explicate, superlative most explicate)

1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.

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References

Further reading

• explicate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• explicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Adverb

explic?t? (not comparable)

1. clearly, plainly

Verb

explic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explic?

References

• explicate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• explicate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• explicate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.