verb · transitive · rare

elucidate

eluc·id·ate

elucidate · elucidates · elucidated · elucidating

разъяснять

erklären, erläutern, verdeutlichen

To make clear and understandableTo make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.

UK/ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/US/əˈlusəˌdeɪt/

» Allow me to elucidate.

Meaning

2 senses

(figuratively, transitive)To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
erklären, erläutern, verdeutlichen
разъясня́тьrazʺjasnjátʹ
make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
(obsolete, transitive)To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
make clear and (more) comprehensible

Examples

1 sentences

Allow me to elucidate.
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Translations

8 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to make (something) clear and understandable — see also clarify, illuminate, dilucidate:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to make (something) clear and understandable — see also clarify, illuminate, dilucidate:

Origin

From Late Latin ēlūcidātus, perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to lighten, enlighten”

From Late Latin ēlūcidātus, perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to lighten, enlighten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from”) + lūcidus (“bright, clear, understandable”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), literally “to make light of (something)”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”). Compare French élucider.

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