Translation
plant
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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 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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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 11: planto, sistemo, aviadilo and 6 more words.