Translation
globe, sphere
Word origin
From Latin globus, a round mass or ball, which gives English globe, global and globule directly. The Latin also meant a crowd or a cluster of people, which is where the sense of a dense round mass comes from.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- globus
- English cognates
- globe, global, globule
Examples
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The teacher showed the country on the globe.
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The moon is a great ball of rock.
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The light came from a white globe above the door.
is a sphere as an object: the schoolroom globe, a lamp's glass shade, a planet described as a ball. It is not pilko, which is a ball you play with and nothing else. A football is a and never a ; the earth is a and never a .
For the earth specifically, terglobo is the common compound and the one you want when the context is geography rather than shape. terglobo is the globe as in the whole planet, and it sits alongside mondo, which is the world as a human place, and tero, which is the ground under your feet as well as the planet's name.
also exists in Esperanto for the strict geometric sphere, along with the figurative use English makes of it, as in a sphere of influence. It is a rarer word than and lands at rank 2,635 on our list. Reach for when you mean a round thing you could pick up, and when you mean the mathematics or the metaphor.
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