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Translation

plant

Word origin

From Latin planta ('sprout, shoot'), the root shared across Europe and by English plant and plantation.

Origin
Latin
Root
planta
English cognates
plant, plantation

Examples

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Every plant needs water and light.

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Many plants grow in the garden.

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This plant has beautiful yellow flowers.

is the living thing; the verb planti is what you do to put it in the ground, and the two keep the same tidy noun-verb relationship as English. A o is a plantation or nursery, from the place suffix -. The green kingdom then sorts itself with words you already have: for a tree, for grass and herbs, for the flower. Note that a factory "plant" is not ; that industrial sense stayed in English, and Esperanto says or o.

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This word is part of lesson 22.