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Translation

element

Word origin

From Latin elementum, a first principle or rudiment, the word the Romans used for the four classical elements. Its own origin inside Latin is not settled.

Origin
Latin
Root
elementum
English cognates
element, elementary

Examples

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Water and air are elements of nature.

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Every element of the system has to work.

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The most important element is the person.

An is a constituent part of a whole, whether that whole is a chemical table, a machine or an argument; is the plainer word for a share or portion. Read the ending as one root plus -o, not as a -ment- suffix: Esperanto has no such suffix.

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This word is part of lesson 31.