Translation
to dive
Word origin
From French plonger, which goes back through Vulgar Latin plumbicare to plumbum, lead: to dive is to go down like a lead weight. English plunge and plummet come from the same metal.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- plonger
- English cognates
- plunge, plummet, plumb
Examples
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The boy dived into the river.
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She dived into the deep water and found a stone.
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Do not dive here, because there are stones under the waves.
Note the accusative in the first example, because it is doing work. would be diving about inside a river you are already in.
is going from the bank into the water: the -n on a
preposition of place turns location into direction, and diving is a
direction word if anything is. Same machinery as .
Against naĝi, which is the other half of the
afternoon. is to swim, a thing you do for as long as you like;
is the entry, a single moment of going under. The family is worth
having whole: plonĝo is a dive, o is a diver, subakva o is
diving as a sport, and enplonĝi sharpens the going-in still further. All of
them are also perfectly happy in the figurative sense English uses, so a
country can and a reader can .
It turns up in this chapter's story, La pikniko, where somebody goes off a
riverbank into cold water and regrets the temperature rather than the decision.
That is the register: is a cheerful word, and the language keeps its
serious drowning vocabulary somewhere else entirely.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 55.