Translation
to depend
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Word origin
From French dépendre, from Latin dependere ('to hang down from', from de plus pendere 'to hang'). English depend and pendulum hang from the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- dependere
- English cognates
- depend, pendulum
Examples
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Everything depends on the weather.
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The decision depends on you.
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The children still depend on their parents.
The preposition is the whole lesson here: English depends ON, Esperanto , keeping the Latin picture of one thing hanging from another. on its own does the work of "it depends", the conversational shrug. The negative , built with ('without'), means independent, and o is independence, a word with plenty of mileage in political Esperanto. A o is a dependency, and modern computing borrowed exactly that.
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Word family
Words built on dependi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- sendependaadjective
independent
sendependi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 12: dependi, maŝino, murdi and 7 more words.