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Translation

mineral

Word origin

From medieval Latin minerale, the neuter of mineralis, built on minera, an ore or a mine. Minera is itself a borrowing into Latin, most often traced to a Celtic word for ore that also gives Welsh mwyn. English mineral and mine came the same way and mean the same things.

Origin
Medieval Latin
Root
minera
English cognates
mineral, mine, mineralogy

Examples

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The mountains of that country are rich in minerals.

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This stone contains a rare mineral.

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In the mine they found a new mineral.

No -- in here. ends in what looks exactly like a suffix, and the temptation is to read it as miner- plus --, the ending English uses for national, postal, musical. Resist it. The unofficial affixes article gives -- its honest status: it was proposed in the sense relating to, it never landed, and PIV does not carry it. There is no Esperanto root miner- either. The word arrived whole from Latin and is cut nowhere.

What a actually is. In careful use it is a naturally occurring solid with a definite chemical make-up, which puts salt, quartz and oro inside the class and a lump of coal outside it. In loose use it is anything a minejo produces. The adjective is minerala, and minerala is mineral water in every menu you will meet at a congress. The science is mineralogio, built with the -ologi- formant that the same unofficial-affixes article covers.

The near neighbours. Ŝtono is a stone as an object, roko is rock as a mass, metalo is the worked stuff you can beat into a shape, and kristalo is the shape a mineral takes when it grows undisturbed. is the one that names the substance rather than the lump.

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This word is part of lesson 59.