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Translation

bathing place, baths; bathroom

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from bani, 'to bathe', and the place suffix -ej-. Bani comes from French baigner and Latin balneum, a bath.

Origin
Esperanto
Root
bani + -ej-
English cognates
balneal

Examples

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The new flat has a small bathroom.

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The children ran to the public baths by the lake.

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She left the towel in the bathroom.

Bani is to bathe and -- is the place where the root happens, so a is a place for bathing. The same suffix gives a school, a toilet, a church and o a kitchen. It is the most productive room-builder in the language.

Which place, though, depends on context, and this word straddles two. Indoors it is the bathroom. Outdoors it is the lido, the baths, the swimming spot on the river. If you need the room specifically and the sentence could go either way, says bathroom and nothing else. And keep necesejo separate: in much of continental Europe the room with the bath and the room with the toilet are two different rooms, and Esperanto follows the continent here rather than the British house.

One more from the same root: o is the bathtub itself, the container, which is -uj- rather than --. A place you go into, a container you sit in.

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This word is part of lesson 40.