Translation
surface, outer face
Word origin
From French surface, built in Latin from super ('above') and facies ('face, form') on the model of superficies. Esperanto took the whole word, so the sur- you can see in it is a coincidence rather than the Esperanto preposition.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- super + facies
- English cognates
- surface, superficial, facade
Examples
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The surface of the lake was smooth as a mirror.
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He touched the cold surface of the stone.
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On the surface of the water lay a single green leaf.
is the outside of a thing: the top of the water, the face of a wall, the skin of a table. It is not the same word as areo, which measures how much ground something covers. A can be or rough, wet or dry; an is a number in square metres.
The word begins with the letters of the preposition sur, and that is a trap. was borrowed whole from French, root and all, so you cannot take it apart into plus anything. Contrast submeti in the same chapter, which really is plus .
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 37.