Translation
material
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Word origin
From Latin materialis, from materia, matter, and originally the timber of a tree. Materia itself is built on mater, mother, because the trunk was thought of as the mother-stuff that shoots grow from. The whole of materialo is one Esperanto root: the -al- in it is Latin material carried across, not an Esperanto suffix, because Esperanto has no -al- suffix to be found.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- materialis
- English cognates
- material, matter, maternal, matrix
Examples
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We need more material for the new house.
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Wood is a good material for a table.
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The men carried the material to the building.
Resist the urge to slice this one up. is a single root borrowed whole, and although the -- sitting in the middle looks like an affix, Esperanto does not have one, so there is nothing to decode. Keep it apart from , which is matter in the physicist's sense, the stuff the universe is made of; is the practical stuff you build or work with, and by extension the raw material of a book or a lesson. The adjective means made of matter, and leans philosophical.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 2: materialo, fotilo, heredi and 7 more words.