English → Latin
“explore” in Latin
scrūtorto search carefully, search into or out, examine thoroughly, explore a thing, investigate; to seek forperscrūtorto search (high and low); to examine or investigate (thoroughly)pervestīgōto examine or investigate thoroughlyexplōrōto investigate, search out, seek, discover, examine, explore; to spy out, reconnoitre; to test, try, put to the proofexquīrōto seek or seek out, search for or hunt up; to inquire intoperspiciōto see through something; to perceive or discern clearlyrīmorto probe, search, explore
The English word explore itself goes back to Latin pluō, through explōrō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
explore
PROPR., scrutari: perscrutari: pervestigare: odorari et pervestigare (like a hound); every corner, in omnibus latebris perreptare.
IMPROPR., explorare: exquirere (to search out): pervestigare; indagare et pervestigare (to trace out accurately): perspicere (to see through, get to the bottom of a thing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) perspicere et explorare: rimari (to look, as it were, into every cranny of a subject; Cic.): ☞ explorare also of exploring a country (e.g., Africam, Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for explore?
- The usual Latin words for “explore” are scrūtor, perscrūtor, pervestīgō; also explōrō, exquīrō, perspiciō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.