Translation
perfume
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Word origin
From French parfum, from Italian perfumare, and behind that Latin per fumum, 'through smoke'. The oldest perfumes were resins burnt on a fire, so the word records the method rather than the bottle.
- Origin
- French, from Latin
- Root
- per fumum
- English cognates
- perfume, fume, fumigate
Examples
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She gave me a small bottle of perfume.
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The perfume of those flowers filled the whole room.
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He smelled her perfume before seeing her.
A false seam with a true story behind it. The eye offers - plus , and really is the Esperanto word for smoke, so the guess feels safe. It is not a seam: - came into Esperanto whole from French, and - is not an Esperanto prefix at all.
But the smoke is real. The Latin behind the French is per fumum, "through smoke" - incense and resins burnt so that the scent rose off the fire. The relationship is a fact about Latin, not an instruction for taking the Esperanto word apart, which is exactly the position sits in with its "breathe into". Etymology like this is a gift for remembering a word and a trap for building new ones.
The family behaves normally. is to perfume something, parfumita perfumed, o the shop. Keep it apart from odoro, which is a neutral smell of any kind, good or bad: is a manufactured or deliberately pleasant one, and using it for a drain would be a joke rather than an error.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 3: parfumo, mafio, futbalo and 7 more words.