Translation
instruction, directive; a set of directions
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Word origin
From Latin instructio, from instruere, 'to build into, to equip, to furnish', which is in- plus struere ('to build'). To instruct somebody was to fit them out with what they needed, in the same way you would equip a ship.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- instruere
- English cognates
- instruction, structure, construct
Examples
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Read the instructions before you start.
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The minister's directive was very clear.
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We received new instructions about the new project.
There is no -- suffix in Esperanto. does not break into instruk- plus anything, and it does not break off instrui either. Those two are separate roots in this language: instru- and -. The Latin behind them really is the same verb, instruere, so the family feeling is not imaginary. It just does not survive as a build.
The distinction that follows is worth having. is teaching, the thing a teacher does. is a directive or a set of directions: what the manual says, what head office sent round, what is printed on the side of the box. You teach a child, you follow an instruction.
That same struere is also inside strukturo and konstrui, so this band quietly hands you three words off one Roman verb for stacking things up. Noticing that will not let you build any of them from the others, but it will stop you forgetting which is which.
Where you want the plainer word, regulo is a rule and ordoni is to give an order. is the written kind, and it usually arrives in the plural.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 10: instrukcio, ekskurso, svingi and 7 more words.