Translation
camera
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from the verb foti ('to photograph') and the instrument suffix -il-, so the word means literally a thing for photographing. The foto root is the international clipping of photograph, from Greek phos, genitive photos ('light').
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- foti + -il-
- English cognates
- photograph, photo, phosphorus
Examples
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She carried her camera to the mountains.
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My camera is old but very good.
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He put the camera on the table and waited.
The -- suffix is the one that makes a tool out of an action, and is its cleanest example: is to photograph, so a is the thing you do it with, exactly as o is a knife and o a toy. Once you have it, most machine names stop needing to be memorised. Do not reach for the international , which Esperanto keeps for the film or television camera rather than the still one, and note that foto is the picture that comes out of it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 2: fotilo, heredi, strebi and 7 more words.