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Translation

exhibition

Word origin

From Latin expositio, from ex- (out) plus ponere (to place), through its participle positus. To exhibit is to put out where it can be seen, and the same ponere sits inside position, deposit, compose and a dozen more.

Origin
Latin
Root
expositio
English cognates
exposition, expose, position, deposit

Examples

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The exhibition at the museum runs until May.

.

We visited a big exhibition of modern art.

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Her pictures are in the exhibition.

No -ici- suffix. Esperanto has nothing of the kind, and the ending is a Latin one that arrived fused: - became - when the international vocabulary was standardised, which is why the language has , , , , 's cousin and this. In every case the -- belongs to the borrowed word, not to Esperanto. - is one root. It looks decomposable because - is a real prefix, meaning former, and that makes the temptation worse - but - here is the Latin ex-, out, not the Esperanto -, and an ex-position is not what an exhibition is.

That contrast is worth holding beside eksedziĝi, one rank later in this same chapter, where the - is the real Esperanto prefix doing exactly what it says. Same three letters, two entirely different things, adjacent in the frequency list. The rule is the usual one: strip the supposed affix and ask whether what remains is a root the language has.

Using it. The verb is i, to exhibit or put on show, and the person is an o or, for the artist showing work, ekspozicianto. o is the exhibition hall - -- again. For a single object on display, Esperanto says o with the -- suffix. The plain verb montri covers showing something to one person; i is public and deliberate.

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This word is part of lesson 46.