Translation
computer
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from komputi (to compute, from Latin computare) plus the tool suffix -il-: the computing tool. Coined in the twentieth century when the machine arrived, from parts Zamenhof laid down in 1887.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- komputi + -il-
Examples
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I work all day at the computer.
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His new computer is very fast.
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She writes letters on the computer.
The proudest exhibit in the affix museum: when the computer arrived, Esperanto did not borrow "computer", it assembled from komputi and --, the same suffix that builds (key) and (vehicle). A laptop is a tekokomputilo (briefcase computer) and a tablet a tabulkomputilo. You work (at it) and do things per it, with the usual instrument preposition.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 4: komputilo, fiŝo, diskuti and 5 more words.