expono

From ex- + pōnō (“to place, put”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈspoː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ekˈspɔː.no]

expōnō (present infinitive expōnere, perfect active exposuī or exposīvī, supine expositum or expostum); third conjugation

1. to make conspicuous, to put something where everyone may see it: to expose, exhibit, display, set out

   Synonyms: praebeō, ostendō, ostentō, gerō, prōdō, prōferō, prōpōnō, prōtrahō, acclārō, vulgō, profiteor, indicō, praestō, coarguō, fateor

2. to set forth

   Synonyms: praebeō, offerō, praeferō, prōpōnō, prōdūcō, summittō

3. (transferred senses):
   1. to explain

      Synonym: explicō

   2. (of children) to expose, abandon (Ancient Greek ἐκτίθημι (ektíthēmi))

      Coordinate terms: adoptō, arrogō; suppōnō

      • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 4–42:

        quom conspicatust primulo crepusculo
        puellam exponi. Adit extemplo ad mulierem,
        quae illam exponebat: orat, ut eam det sibi.

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      • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 3.399–400:

        ex te recte eum natum putent.
        Continuo exponetur: hic tibi nil est quicquam incommodi,

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      • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.4:

        is [Romulus] igitur ut natus sit, cum Remo fratre dicitur ab Amulio rege Albano ob labefactandi regni timorem ad Tiberim exponi iussus esse

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      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.4:

        in proxima alluvie ubi nunc ficus Ruminalis est—Romularem vocatam ferunt —pueros exponunt.

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      • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Claudi 27:

        Claudiam ex liberto suo Botere conceptam, quamuis ante quintum mensem diuortii natam alique coeptam, exponi tamen ad matris ianuam et nudam iussit abici.

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¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “expono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “expono”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to risk one's life: salutem, vitam suam in discrimen offerre (not exponere)
    
  • (to encourage) by offering a reward: praemium exponere or proponere
    
  • to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
    
  • to give an account of a thing (either orally or in writing): exponere aliquid or de aliqua re
    
  • to give an account of a man's life: vitam alicuius exponere
    
  • to make a character-sketch of a person: de ingenio moribusque alicuius exponere
    
  • to represent a thing dramatically: sic exponere aliquid, quasi agatur res (non quasi narretur)
    
  • to dwell only on the main points: summatim aliquid exponere
    
  • to set out goods for sale: exponere, proponere merces (venales)
    
  • to disembark troops: milites in terram, in terra exponere