explanatio

From explano (“to explain”) + -tio (“suffix forming action noun”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.spɫaːˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.splaˈnat.t͡si.o]

explānātiō f (genitive explānātiōnis); third declension

1. explanation, interpretation
2. exposition
3. articulation, pronunciation

Third-declension noun.

• explānō

• → English: explanation
• → Portuguese: explanação
• → Spanish: explanación

• “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "explanatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “explanatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.