## Meanings
1. Having many parts or details; carefully and richly worked out.
2. To give more details about something you have said.
3. To develop or work out something in careful detail.

## Examples
- They prepared an elaborate dinner with five courses.
- Could you elaborate on your reasons for leaving?
- The team spent weeks elaborating the new marketing plan.

## Derived Forms
- elaborately
- elaborateness
- elaborater
- elaboration
- elaborator
- inelaborate
- overelaborate
- superelaborate
- unelaborate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: ēlabōrātus

## Etymology
1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.

## AI Etymology
Elaborate is attested from 1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour. A key historical form is Late Latin ēlabōrātus. In present-day use, it can mean having many parts or details; carefully and richly worked out, or to give more details about something you have said. Derived formations include elaborately, elaborateness, elaborater, elaboration, elaborator.

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