Translation
stripe; strip, narrow band
Word origin
From Latin stria, a furrow or a narrow groove, the word that gives English striated and striation. The Latin belongs to a wide family about scraping and drawing lines, alongside German Striemen and English streak.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- stria
- English cognates
- striated, striation, streak
Examples
: , .
The flag has three stripes: red, white and green.
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There is a long white stripe on the road.
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He wore a shirt with blue stripes.
is one root, /o, and the -o on the end is nothing more exotic than the noun ending. That matters, because the shape invites a bad cut. Esperanto really does build country names with - (Anglio, Francio), and and end the same way, so the eye wants to slice str + - and go looking for a people called the Str. There is no such root. Cut it + -o, like or , and you are finished.
One word covers what English splits in two. A on a flag or a shirt is a stripe; a of land, of paper or of bacon is a strip. Esperanto sees the same long narrow thing in both and does not care which English word you would have reached for.
Keep it apart from . A is a line, and its width is not the point; a has width and the width is exactly the point. Draw one with a pen and you get a , paint one with a roller and you get a .
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