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Translation

play, stage work

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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 , from , and the two never swap.

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This word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 7: teatraĵo, islamo, motivo and 7 more words.