Talk:expontaneous

RFV discussion
This certainly seems to be a medical word. But the definition seems totally wrong. Not in the OED. Any ideas? SemperBlotto 08:06, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Most of the usages that I can find seem to be mis-spellings of spontaneous, but "expontaneous" seems too common to be just a random error. I can't quite believe that it is a word, but I can't explain why it keeps occurring.    D b f  i  r  s   13:38, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense replaced with correct sense. @Dbfirs: I assume the etymology here is parallel to that of (q.v.), but with an explicit preposition  rather than letting that be implicit in the use of the ablative case. See,. I don't find it odd in the least that &lt;exsp-&gt; would become &lt;exp-&gt;. —Ruakh TALK 03:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)