Translation
lantern
Word origin
From Latin lanterna, borrowed in turn from Greek lampter, a torch or light-holder, on the verb lampein, to shine. English lamp comes from the same Greek family.
- Origin
- Latin, from Greek
- Root
- lanterna
- English cognates
- lantern, lamp
Examples
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The old lantern hung above the door.
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He carried a lantern in the dark.
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The light of the lantern was warm and yellow.
A is a light in a case: a carried lamp with a flame or bulb inside a housing of glass and metal. That housing is the whole distinction. A lampo is a lamp of any kind, including the one on your desk; a kandelo is the candle that might be burning inside; a is the thing you can take out into the wind and still have light.
The compounds are worth having: stratlanterno, a street lamp, and magia , the magic lantern - the projector our great-grandparents watched, and a phrase Esperanto writers reach for when they want to talk about the past showing itself as pictures against the dark.
No -ern- here. The word looks like it might split into lant- plus a suffix, and it does not: Esperanto has no suffix -ern-, and lant- is not a root. - is one piece, borrowed whole from Latin. The -- inside it is a Greek agent ending that finished its work two thousand years before Zamenhof, which is precisely why it is invisible to the modern grammar.
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