Translation
lung
Word origin
From Latin pulmo, a lung, cousin to Greek pleumon and to the pulmonary of English medicine. The Germanic word lung comes from a different image entirely, the light one, because lungs float in water.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pulmo
- English cognates
- pulmonary, pneumonia
Examples
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We have two lungs in the chest.
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The doctor listened to my lungs.
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The cold air entered his lungs.
Clinical, plain, and unmarked. is the anatomical organ, the word a
doctor uses and the word a biology textbook uses, with no figurative sense
attached. Esperanto keeps the same register that
stomako and
koro keep: the organ is named neutrally, and the
metaphors get built separately when they are wanted.
The vocabulary around it writes itself, because the affixes do the work.Spiri is to breathe;
enspiri is to breathe in and
elspiri to breathe out, straight from the
prepositions and . Spiro is a breath, o is breathing as an
ongoing activity, and pulma is the adjective, so pulmonary disease is
pulma o. This is the point at which a learner who has done the affix
track stops needing a medical dictionary.
Two lungs, and says so. English talks about "the lungs" as a
single system; Esperanto is happy to count them, and or are both ordinary. Position them with
brusto, the chest, and you have enough to describe
where a breath goes.
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