Translation
shower (for washing)
Word origin
From French douche, borrowed from Italian doccia, a water pipe, which goes back to Latin ductio and the verb ducere ('to lead'). The shower is named for the leading of water down a pipe, so it shares a root with duct and aqueduct, and with duko, the leader of men.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- ducere
- English cognates
- douche, duct, aqueduct
Examples
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I took a warm shower before breakfast.
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The shower in the hotel gave only cold water.
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After the long day she wanted only a shower and a bed.
covers both the fitting on the wall and the wash you take under it, and Esperanto lets you say either or, with the verb built straight off the root, duŝi sin. It never means a rain shower: that is o or simply . The room itself is a o, and if you want the head rather than the whole arrangement, o does it, which is the -- suffix doing the same job it does in fotilo.
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