Translation
plate
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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