Where does “exploring” come from?

Exploring comes from Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre meaning to search out or investigate, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root eǵ-.

exploring (English): The action of the verb explore; present...

Definitions

  1. The action of the verb explore; present...

Ancestry of “exploring”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishexploreTo seek for something or after someone; To...
2Middle Frenchexplorerto explore
3LatinexploroI explore; I test; I investigate
4Latinēx-out, away
5Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵ-—

Words derived from “exploring”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European eǵ- →Every word from Latin ēx- →Every word from Latin exploro →