Translation
frame; framework
Word origin
From French cadre, from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum, a square. A picture frame is a square, and everything else the word means grew out of that.
- Origin
- Latin, via Italian and French
- Root
- quadrum
- English cognates
- cadre, square, quadrangle
Examples
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The picture hung in an old frame.
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The frame of the window is made of wood.
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We are working within the framework of a new plan.
No seam at all. There is no -dr- affix in Esperanto, nothing comes off the
front, and - is a single root with the -o on the end. Say it once and
move on, because the interesting thing about this word is its range.
Concretely a is the wooden or metal thing round a picture, a window, a
door or a bicycle. Abstractly it is a framework, and the phrase you will meet
constantly in Esperanto organisational prose is , within the
framework of, used for congresses, projects and budgets. Third, and following
French, it can be a cadre in the personnel sense: the trained core of an
organisation. Context separates all three without effort.
Derivations are straightforward: enkadrigi is to frame something, in both the
literal and the figurative sense, and kadra covers framework-ish adjectives
such as kadra interkonsento, an outline agreement.
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