Translation
credit card
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of two roots the course has already taught: kredito, from Latin creditum, a thing entrusted, from credere, to believe; and karto, from Greek khartes, a sheet of papyrus, by way of Latin charta. The card is literally a paper that says somebody believes you will pay.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- kredito + karto
- English cognates
- credit, creed, card, chart
Examples
?
Are you paying by credit card or in cash?
.
I lost my credit card in the shop.
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The bank sent me a new credit card.
Decode it and you have it. is
kredito plus karto, glued
with no connecting vowel because the two roots meet cleanly. This is
compounding at its most ordinary, and it is worth noticing precisely because it
is boring: no affix, no vowel, no alteration, just two known words in a row and
a meaning you can read off. English does the same thing and then spells it as
two words. The compounding article has the
rules for when the linking -o- is wanted.
Modern life, ranked by use. The frequency list behind this course is built
from public-domain texts written between 1887 and 1930, and those texts contain
no credit cards at all. is one of the words hand-placed at a
defensible rank because a course that can discuss a stagecoach and not a bank
card is a museum, not a language course. ,
interreto and
telefono are here for the same reason.
Saying it at a till. ? is the sentence to
have ready. Per is the preposition for the instrument -
pagi per - and kontanta is cash if
you need to be explicit. The card is until it senvalidiĝas, and the
number on it is the , not the .
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