Translation
lorry, truck
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Word origin
From French camion, a heavy cart and later a motor lorry. The French word is of genuinely obscure origin: it turns up in the fifteenth century for a low dray and no convincing source has been agreed since.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- camion
Examples
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A big lorry stopped in front of the house.
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The driver loaded the lorry with sacks of grain.
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A lorry can carry more than a car.
Not a fraction. The -on- sitting in the middle is one of Esperanto's most useful suffixes, the one that makes fractions: duono a half, o a third, o a quarter. It is not doing that here. is a single root, -, and there is no kami for it to be a fraction of. The word came in whole from French and the resemblance is pure coincidence.
Where it sits among vehicles. Veturilo is the general word for any vehicle, built from , to travel by conveyance, plus the tool suffix. Aŭto is a car. is a lorry: goods rather than people, and heavy. o, with the diminutive, is a van or a pickup, which is a lovely piece of Esperanto economy. The driver is a ŝoforo, and o is specifically a lorry driver by trade.
The verbs that go with it. You ŝarĝi a lorry (load it), i it (unload it), and transporti the goods in it. is road haulage.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 8: kamiono, reputacio, tendaro and 7 more words.