Translation
frog
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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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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 11: rano, ekspedicio, gitaro and 7 more words.