dilucidate

== English == === Etymology === From diēs (“day”) +‎ lūcis (“light”) +‎ -id +‎ -ate. === Verb === dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated) (transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify. 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2): And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice. ==== Translations ==== === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dilucidate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. === Anagrams === adulticide == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== dilucidate inflection of dilucidare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== dilucidate f pl feminine plural of dilucidato === Anagrams === delucidati == Spanish == === Verb === dilucidate second-person singular voseo imperative of dilucidar combined with te