Translation
plate
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Word origin
From German Teller, which German took from Medieval Latin taliator by way of Old French tailleor, the carving board. The root is Latin taliare, 'to cut', so a plate is named after the cutting done on it.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- taliator
- English cognates
- tailor, detail
Examples
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Put the plates on the table.
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The plate fell off the table.
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There were meat and bread on my plate.
is the flat dinner plate. A saucer is a subtaso, literally an under-cup, and a serving dish is a . Note the stress: Esperanto always stresses the second-to-last syllable, so this is te-LE-ro, not TE-lero as the German original suggests.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 12: telero, konsoli, komento and 7 more words.