Translation
file (on a computer); dossier, case file
Word origin
From French dossier, from dos, 'a back', because a bundle of papers was labelled on its spine so it could be found on a shelf. The Latin behind dos is dorsum, which also gives Esperanto dorso.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- dossier
- English cognates
- dossier, dorsal
Examples
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I sent you the file over the internet.
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The police have a thick file on that man.
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She opened the file on her computer.
A word that lived quietly in police procedurals and then got a second career. The old sense is the paper one: a is the bundle the authorities keep on you, labelled on the spine, which is literally what the French word says. Its relative in Esperanto is dorso, a back.
The modern sense is the one you will use daily. A computer file is a , a folder is a o (the container suffix -- again, as in fridujo), and a filename is a dosiernomo. Do not reach for dokumento here: a is a document, something with content and standing, while a is the container the machine stores it in. A photograph is a and not a .
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