Translation
collapse (of a structure or a system); a sudden failure of strength
Word origin
From Latin collapsus, the participle of collabi, to fall together: com- ('together') plus labi ('to slip, to fall'). The same labi is behind lapse and relapse, which are the slower versions of the same movement.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- collabi
- English cognates
- collapse, lapse, relapse
Examples
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The collapse of the wall happened quite suddenly.
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After the collapse of the bank many people lost their money.
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The doctor feared a collapse of the heart.
Nothing in this word is a suffix. Esperanto has no -aps-, so - + -aps- + -o is not an analysis, and the - at the front is not , a neck. is one root that arrived from Latin with its internal joints already welded shut, and the com- that really is a prefix inside it stopped being one long before Esperanto existed.
Register. This is a formal word - medicine, engineering, economics. For a wall that falls down in ordinary speech, or i (to fall apart) does the work, and is is what a person would actually say. Reach for when the thing collapsing is a system, a market, a lung or a patient.
The . Kolapsi is intransitive: the thing collapses by itself, and there is no object to take -n. To knock something down deliberately you want i or .
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