Where does “explotar” come from?
explotar (Spanish) comes from Spanish explosión, from Latin explōsio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
explotar (Spanish): to exploit; to explode
Definitions
- to exploit; to explode
Ancestry of “explotar”, step by step
explotar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish explosión
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | explosión | explosion, blast, bang, burst, boom; bang, boom |
| 2 | Latin | explōsio | a driving off by clapping |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via French exploiter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | exploiter | to exploit |
| 2 | Old French | esploitier | to use; to make use of |
| 3 | Old French | espleitier | Alternative form of esploitier |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | explicitare | — |
| 5 | Latin | explico | I unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo; I deploy,... |
| 6 | Latin | plicō | to fold, bend or flex; to roll up |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pleḱ- | to fold, plait, weave |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |