Translation
lottery
Word origin
From Italian lotteria and French loterie, both built on lotto, which came from a Germanic word for a lot or a share, the same one behind English lot and allot.
- Origin
- Italian and French
- Root
- lotteria
- English cognates
- lottery, lotto, allot
Examples
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He bought a ticket for the lottery.
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She won a large sum in the lottery.
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The lottery takes place every Sunday.
The false seam. ends in a run of letters that all mean something on their own. Esperanto has -er-, the fragment suffix, and -i, the verb ending, and a learner reading lot-er-i-o will produce something like a small-piece-doing thing, which is nonsense here. There is no verb loti behind it and no -er- inside it. - is one root, borrowed as a lump from Italian and French, and only the final -o comes off.
The company it keeps. A is decided by , rank 1086, which is chance in the sense of coincidence, and it is about , rank 420, which is fate or one's lot. That last word is worth noticing: and both trace back to the ancient practice of drawing lots, one through Latin and one through Germanic, and they arrive in Esperanto looking completely unrelated.
You buy a , you might , and the verb for taking part is loterii, though most people simply .
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