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Explicate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to explain something in detail, unfolding its meaning
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Stage 1 of 2
explicare
Latin · ancient
"to unfold, to explain"
to unfold, to explain, from ex- (out) and plicare (to fold)
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Stage 2 of 2
explicate
English · 1530s
"to explain something in detail"
settled as the English word for explaining something in detail
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