expletivus

explētīvus, a, um, adj. [expleo],

• serving to fill out, expletive; in the later grammarians, conjunctiones, such as quidem, equidem, autem, quoque, Don. p. 1763 P.; Charis. p. 199 ib. al.

explētīvus, a, um (expleo), ergänzend, coniunctio, Charis. 224, 30. Prisc. 17, 4. Serv. Verg. Aen. 1, 39: syllaba, Prisc. part. XII vers. Aen. 91.

expletivus [LL] , (med.) that completes or fulfils (function). b (gram. & rhet.) expletive, that completes or clarifies (sense; also as sb.). quedam [membra] operacionum sunt organa ~a, quedam superfluitatum expurgatoria et receptacula et respirativa Ric. Med. Anat. 212.  b ~ae [conjunctiones] sunt quae vel bonum vel malum explent sensum Alcuin Didasc. 895B; sume syndon gehatene ~ae oððe completivae gecwedene, þæt synd gefyllendlice Ælf. Gram. 261; ~um, vel sc. similitudinem proferam Lanfr. Comment. Paul. (1 Cor. xiv 6) 202.

explētīvus, a, um, explétif [gramm.] : Char. 224, 30 ; Prisc. Gramm. 17, 4.