Translation
feather; pen
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Word origin
From Latin pluma ('feather, down'), via French plume. The writing sense rode along for free: for centuries the pen was a feather, a quill, so one word covered both. English plume and plumage share the root.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- pluma
- English cognates
- plume, plumage
Examples
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The bird lost a few feathers.
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A hundred years ago people wrote letters with a pen.
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He found a long feather on the ground.
Like French plume, is both the feather on the bird and the pen in your hand - the quill did the merging centuries before Esperanto existed. Context settles it, and where it does not, birdoplumo and skriboplumo spell it out.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 15, lesson 12: plumo, kilometro, konstanta and 7 more words.