Translation
bathroom
Word origin
A compound made inside Esperanto from bano, a bath, and ĉambro, a room. Bani is from French baigner and Latin balneum; ĉambro is from French chambre and Latin camera, a vaulted room.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- bano + ĉambro
- English cognates
- chamber, camera, balneal
Examples
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The bathroom is behind the bedroom.
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She left the mirror in the bathroom.
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Our new house has two bathrooms.
Head-final, and both halves are already yours. Ĉambro is the head - a is a kind of room - and ban-, the root of bani (to bathe), says which kind. The linking -o- drops because is comfortable to say without it, though banoĉambro is not wrong. Compound words covers the rule; this word is about as clean an example as the language offers.
The fence with banejo. Both get translated "bathroom" and they are not the same word. is plus --, the place suffix, and -- is broad: any place for bathing. That takes in the lido, the public baths, the swimming spot on the river - and, indoors, the bathroom too. names the ROOM and only the room, because is baked into it. So every is a , and most are not . When an estate agent lists a flat, is the word that cannot be misread.
And the room next door. Continental Europe often puts the bath and the lavatory in separate rooms, and Esperanto follows the continent: necesejo is the toilet, a different room with a different name. If you want the tub itself it is o or bankuvo, and if you want the act, sin - to bathe oneself, with the reflexive pronoun doing exactly what it does in French.
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