Etymology

exploratory

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Today it means: Serving to explore or investigate. Full definition →

English explore ← Middle French explorer ← Latin explōrō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinex-
  6. Latinplōrō
  7. Latinexplōrō
  8. Middle Frenchexplorer
  9. Englishexplore
  10. English todayexploratory

From explore + -atory.

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