Translation
dust
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Word origin
From Latin pulvis, stem pulver-, meaning dust or powder. English powder came down the same line through Old French poudre, and pulverise kept the Latin stem almost intact.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pulvis
- English cognates
- powder, pulverise
Examples
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Dust covered the table and the books.
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The wind raised dust on the dry road.
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A lot of dust lay under the bed.
is a mass noun in practice, so you rarely see . Two useful derivations come almost free: senpolvigi is to dust something (literally to make it dust-free) and polvosuĉilo is a vacuum cleaner, a dust-sucking-tool. English keeps the powder sense in a separate word; Esperanto does too, with for gunpowder, and the one-letter gap between and is worth a careful look.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 1: polvo, deteni, inĝeniero and 7 more words.