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Italian word spiegare comes from Latin plico, Latin evanescere, Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) explicquer (To explain.)
plico (Latin)
(transitive) I arrive (this meaning comes from sailors, for whom the folding of a ship’s sails meant arrival on land). (transitive) I fold, bend or flex; I roll up.
evanescere (Latin)
explicquer (Middle French)
To explain.
explico (Latin)
(of speech) I develop, set forth, exhibit. I deploy, extend, display. I disentangle, solve, settle, arrange, regulate, adjust. I explain. I unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo.
expliquer (French)
To explain.
spiegare (Italian)
(transitive) to explain, elucidate, expound, show, account, understand. (transitive) to unfold, spread, open out, lay out, unfurl.