Translation
parallel
Word origin
From Greek parallelos, made of para ('beside') and allelon ('one another'). Parallel lines are lines lying beside each other, and the Greek says so twice over. Esperanto took the international form whole.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- para + allēlōn
- English cognates
- parallel, parallelogram
Examples
.
The two streets are parallel.
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Draw two parallel lines.
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The river runs parallel to the road.
The -- is not a suffix. Esperanto has no -- affix, and even if it
did, parala is not a word. is one Greek borrowing arriving whole,
and the only piece you add is the adjectival -a. The trap is worth naming
because the language trains you to look for seams, and roughly a fifth of the
time there is nothing there.
How to use it in a sentence. Two things are to each other, and
the second one takes : . As a
predicate after a subject it agrees like any adjective, so plural subjects get
. The adverb paralele and the noun paralelo (a parallel, whether
geometric or figurative) both exist, and paralelogramo is the shape.
The figurative sense is as common as the literal one. histories,
careers, a paralelo drawn between two events. Beside it sit
rekta at 518 for straight,
linio at 1,190 for the line itself, and
apud at 181, the preposition that says beside without
promising that the distance stays the same. That promise is exactly what
adds.
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