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Translation

to meditate; to ponder, to reflect deeply

Word origin

From Latin meditari, 'to think over, to rehearse in the mind', a frequentative related to the root behind medicine and remedy, all of them originally about taking careful measures.

Origin
Latin
Root
meditari
English cognates
meditate, meditation, premeditated

Examples

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Every morning he sits in the garden and meditates.

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She pondered her mother's words.

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After the war he reflected for a long time on life.

Two senses live here, and they are far enough apart to be worth separating. The first is the practice: sitting still, quieting the mind, the thing a monk or a yoga teacher does, and it takes no object at all. duonhoron ĉiutage. The second is ordinary deep reflection about a subject, and it takes : , to ponder the future. English "meditate" covers both too, but the first sense has swallowed the second in modern usage, so learners often assume is only the cushion-and-incense word. It is not.

Against pensi, the difference is duration and depth rather than kind. is what your head does all day, including deciding what to have for lunch. is sustained, deliberate and slow, and you cannot for two seconds. Related nearby: is to think something over, which sits neatly between the two, and it is the word to reach for when "consider" is what you mean.

The nouns are medito for a single reflection and o for the practice as an ongoing thing, which is the one you want on a poster for a class. A o is a room set aside for it.

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This word is part of lesson 37.