Translation
tin (the metal)
Word origin
From Latin stannum, the Roman name for the metal. The chemical symbol Sn on the periodic table is the same word, which is the tidiest possible proof that the borrowing is direct.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- stannum
- English cognates
- stannic, stannous
Examples
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Tin is a soft metal.
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The child's soldiers are made of tin.
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We found an old tin box.
One letter from its neighbour. is tin. , at rank 2468 and in this same batch of words, is a pole. One g separates them and they have no connection at all: is Latin stannum, is German Stange. Say them aloud together once, deliberately, and the pair will stop catching you out.
No seam. There is no verb stani behind this, and -no is not a suffix. - is the root and -o is the noun ending, the whole story.
is the metal itself. A tin can in the everyday sense is a ladskatolo or simply a , because those are usually steel rather than tin, and Esperanto is more literal about it than English. Toy soldiers, though, really were .
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