Translation
light
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Examples
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The light of the sun filled the room.
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We worked by the light of the fire.
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In the darkness he saw a distant light.
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The light of the moon was bright.
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Without light we cannot read.
The root spreads out neatly. is to give light, intransitive; i is to light something up; o is a lamp, the tool that does it; is darkness. Keep apart from , which describes how bright a thing looks rather than the light itself, and from , which is what a surface does when light bounces off it. A room is , a candle , gold , and is the stuff all three are about.
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Word family
Words built on lumo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- mallumonoun
darkness, the dark
mal-lumo
- prilumiverb
to light up, to illuminate
prilumo: to shine light on
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 2: lumo, popolo, facila and 7 more words.