Translation
brochure, booklet
Word origin
From French brochure, from brocher, 'to stitch', because a brochure is a book held together with thread rather than bound in boards. The French verb goes back to a Latin word for a spike or a pin.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- brocher
- English cognates
- brochure, brooch, broach
Examples
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At the door they gave us a brochure about the town.
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The booklet has only twelve pages.
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He read the brochure on the train and then left it on the seat.
No suffix, and not the brush either. ends in -uro, and Esperanto has no affix -ur- to strip; - is one root. The second trap is nearer: is a brush, and the two words are one letter apart in sound and one in spelling. They are unrelated. is Germanic by way of French brosse; is the stitching word.
The stitching is the whole idea. A is a thin thing held together with thread or staples rather than bound: a pamphlet, a leaflet, an information booklet, the folded card the hotel leaves on the table. The verb broŝuri means to stitch pages that way, and a broŝurita is a paperback as opposed to a bindita hardback.
Size is what separates it from libro. Nobody writes a of four hundred pages. If you want to stress that it is small and free, o or flugfolio (a flyer) are the neighbours; if you want to stress that somebody argued something in it, the movement's own word is , and Esperanto history is full of them.
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