Translation
geography
Word origin
From Greek geographia, from ge ('earth') and graphein ('to write'). Writing about the earth, which is exactly what the first geographers did.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- geographia
- English cognates
- geography, geology, graphic
Examples
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We learned the geography of the world from old maps.
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Her favourite subject at school was geography.
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The geography of the island explains the whole history.
A word to take apart privately and never to . Geo- really means earth and -grafio really means writing or describing, and knowing that makes , geologio, fotografio and biografio easier to hold in the head. What you must not do is treat those pieces as Esperanto affixes and coin new ones.
They are not on anybody's official list. -Ologio, -fobio, -, -grafio are international formants that European languages inherited from Greek, and Esperanto borrowed the finished words rather than the machinery. The apposition and affix-like roots article puts the rule plainly: you may take these apart to remember them, you may not build new ones on the pattern and expect to be understood. arrived whole; so did .
The family is regular once it is here. Geografia is geographical, geografo a geographer, geografie geographically. Note that the - closing this word is part of the borrowing, not the - that names countries in Francio and Italio - the same two letters doing two unrelated jobs, which is normal in a language that takes its vocabulary from everywhere.
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