piramido

The word that closes the chapter. Piramido is rank 2,700, the last word of this band and the last of the chapter, which is a fitting thing for a pyramid to be: you have spent a hundred ranks stacking blocks and here is the shape they make. From here the course walks on into the ranks above 2,700 with a working vocabulary of two thousand seven hundred roots, which is more than enough to read a newspaper slowly and an easy novel properly.

The Egyptian set is complete. Faraono at 2,131 is the pharaoh, egipto at 1,881 is an Egyptian, tombo at 718 is a tomb, and piramido is the thing built over it. Note that egipto is the person: the country is Egiptujo or Egiptio, on the -uj- and -i- country suffixes, and the adjective is egipta.

And the geometry set closes too. A piramido is a solid with a polygon for its base and triangles rising to a point, so it takes its place beside kvadrato at 2,380, triangulo at 2,616, cirklo at 2,649 and angulo at 702. Four of those five arrived in this one chapter, which is why the shapes suddenly feel learnable as a set. Piramida means pyramid-shaped and piramideto is a small one. The one modern sense worth flagging is piramida skemo, a pyramid scheme, which means in Esperanto exactly the swindle it means in English.