Translation
ox; head of cattle, bovine
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Word origin
From Latin bos, stem bov-, meaning ox or cow. The same stem gives English bovine, and, by way of Old French boef, the word beef.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bos, bovis
- English cognates
- bovine, beef
Examples
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The ox is drinking water in the field.
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We saw ten cattle on the road.
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Cattle eat grass in the countryside.
is the species word, an animal of the cattle kind, and by default an ox. Esperanto then builds the rest of the herd from it with plain suffixes: a cow, a bull, a calf, o a herd. This is the pattern worth learning rather than the single word, because every farm animal works the same way.
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Word family
Words built on bovo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- bovaĵonoun
beef
bovo-aĵ-: something made from cattle
- bovidonoun
calf
bovo-id-
- virbovonoun
bull
virobovo: a male of the cattle
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 11: bovo, oficiro, flago and 7 more words.