Translation
planet
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Word origin
From Greek planetes (wanderer), via Latin planeta and the modern European forms. The ancients named them for drifting across the sky while the fixed stars held still.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- planetes
- English cognates
- planet
Examples
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The Earth is our planet.
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Eight planets go around the sun.
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At night we looked at the stars and planets.
The Greeks called them wanderers because they refuse to sit still among the stars, and the name stuck in nearly every European language before Esperanto inherited it. Our own planet as a body is with a capital, while lower-case is soil and ground. Keep apart from : a burns its own light, a only borrows it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 4: planedo, fiŝo, diskuti and 5 more words.