Etymology

explete

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Today it means: Complete, perfect Full definition →

Latin expletus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromexpletus“completed”
  2. English todayexplete

Learned borrowing from Latin expletus (“completed”).

Words from the same roots

Latinexpletus all →

expletive

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