Translation
automobile, motor car
Word origin
An international borrowing of automobile, built from Greek autos ('self') and Latin mobilis ('moving'): a thing that moves by itself. Everyday Esperanto clips it to aŭto, exactly as English clipped automobile to car and motorcar to motor.
- Origin
- Greek and Latin, via international automobile
- Root
- autos + mobilis
- English cognates
- automobile, mobile
Examples
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A hundred years ago the motor car was a new thing.
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The automobile is standing in front of the house.
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His father bought his first automobile many years ago.
is the full, formal word; conversation nearly always says . It survives in official prose, old texts and compounds, much as motorcar lingers in English. If you are speaking rather than drafting a law, reach for .
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