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Translation

lesson

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Word origin

From French le莽on, from Latin lectio ('a reading'), from legere ('to read'). The same root gives English lesson and lecture.

Origin
Latin
Root
lectio
English cognates
lesson, lecture

Examples

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The first lesson is the easiest.

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Today we have a lesson about history.

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After the lesson the children went home.

is the unit of teaching, whether in a classroom or in a textbook, and Zamenhof's own is organised into numbered , so the word has been part of learning Esperanto from the first page. The figurative sense works too: scolds exactly like its English equivalent. Keep it apart from , the whole course, and from , the teaching itself. To take lessons is ; to give them, .

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This word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 11: leciono, sistemo, aviadilo and 6 more words.