Latin

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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

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

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    Descendants

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

    References

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    • 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

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    • Hyphenation: ex‧plo‧do

    Verb

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    explodo

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