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Translation

ice cream

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from glacio ('ice') and the suffix -aĵ-, which turns a quality or substance into a concrete thing made of it. The root glaci- comes from Latin glacies, ice, by way of French glace.

Origin
Esperanto compound on a Latin root
Root
glacio + -aĵ-
English cognates
glacier, glacial

Examples

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The children ate ice cream in the park.

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During the warm summer we always buy ice cream.

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Her favourite ice cream is made of chocolate.

A clean derivation and a good advertisement for the suffix system. is ice; -- makes a concrete thing out of a substance or a quality; is therefore "a thing made of ice", which the world settled on as ice cream. The same suffix gives you o from , from and o from , so learning one of these teaches you the shape of hundreds.

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This word is part of lesson 34.