Translation
stain, spot
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Word origin
From Latin macula, a spot or blemish. English immaculate is the same word with a negative prefix, meaning literally without a stain.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- macula
- English cognates
- immaculate, macula, maculate
Examples
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There is a big stain on the white wall.
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She washed the stain out with warm water.
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There was a small spot on his face.
is the unwanted mark: the stain on a shirt, the spot on the sun, the blot on a reputation, all three. Keep it apart from punkto, the deliberate dot or full stop. Senmakula is spotless and reads exactly like immaculate, is to stain something, and i is the laundry verb for getting the mark out again.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 8: makulo, nuligi, kazo and 6 more words.