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Translation

frog

Word origin

From Latin rana, a frog. English has no everyday descendant, but the scientific family name Ranidae and the flower ranunculus, literally a little frog because it grows in wet ground, both keep the root.

Origin
Latin
Root
rana
English cognates
ranunculus

Examples

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A green frog was sitting on the stone.

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The frogs sing every night by the river.

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The child wanted to catch the frog.

covers frogs and, loosely, toads; if you need the toad specifically it is bufo. Esperanto frogs kvakas, which is as good an argument as any that the language is not really neutral about sound symbolism. A tadpole, pleasingly, is a o, a frog-offspring, built with the same -- you already know from .

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This word is part of lesson 32.