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Translation

a serving, a helping (of food); an allotted share

Word origin

From Latin portio, a share, which most accounts connect to pars, partis - the same root that gave Esperanto parto. English portion and proportion come from it directly, and the phrase pro portione, in proportion, is where proportion comes from whole.

Origin
Latin
Root
portio
English cognates
portion, proportion

Examples

.

He ate a large helping of soup.

.

Every child received an equal share.

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The waiter put two servings on the table.

No -- in there. Esperanto has no -- suffix, so porc- + -i- + -o is not a reading, and there is no root porc- either. is one root, and the - ending it wears is simply how Latin - nouns come into the language: , , funkcio, . Learn the shape as a shape and it stops looking like morphology.

against . They are cousins in Latin and different words in use. is a part of a whole in the abstract - a part of a book, a part of the country. is a share measured out and handed over: a plate of food, a ration, an allotted amount. If somebody serves it to you, it is a ; if you can point at it inside something bigger, it is a . , a piece, is the third of the set and means a lump broken off.

Watch the . With a quantity noun the material takes , not : , a helping of soup. would mean a portion of that specific money, which is a different sentence. The quantity article has the and split in full, and it is one of the two or three things learners get wrong for longest.

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This word is part of lesson 47.