Translation
play, stage work
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from teatr- plus -aĵ-, the suffix for a concrete thing made of something. The root is Greek theatron, 'a place for viewing', from theasthai ('to behold').
- Origin
- Esperanto formation on a Greek root
- Root
- teatro + -aĵ-
- English cognates
- theatre, amphitheatre
Examples
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We watched a play about the war.
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She wrote a play for the school.
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The play lasted two hours.
Another genuine build. -- makes a concrete thing out of whatever it is attached to: gives o (food), gives (a building), and gives , a thing made for the theatre. It is the work itself, not the building and not the evening out; the performance is a o or a .
Watch the English "play". A play in the theatre sense is a ; a play in the sense of playing is ludo, from , and the two never swap.
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