Translation
painter (artist)
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from pentri ('to paint') plus -ist-, the suffix for a trade. The root goes back through the Romance verbs pintar and peindre to Latin pingere, 'to paint'.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation on a Latin root
- Root
- pentri + -ist-
- English cognates
- paint, picture, pigment, depict
Examples
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The painter worked in a small room.
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She wants to become a painter.
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That painter's pictures hang in the museum.
A straight build: pentri plus -- plus -o, one who paints as a trade. The suffix is the workhorse described in the affixes article, and it behaves here exactly as it does in and .
The distinction English blurs and Esperanto keeps is the one between the two kinds of painter. A is the artist. The one who paints your walls is a o, from , paint as a substance, because what he does is apply farbo rather than make pictures. Ask a to do your kitchen and you have asked the wrong man.
Two more from the same root, both useful: o is the painting itself, the object on the wall, and o is the activity. That trio, , o, o, is the standard pattern for any craft in Esperanto, so it is worth learning once as a shape rather than three times as vocabulary.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 12: pentristo, masko, dato and 6 more words.