Translation
potato
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of tero ('earth', from Latin terra) and pomo ('apple', from Latin pomum via French pomme). It is a straight calque of French pomme de terre, the apple of the earth.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound, calqued from French
- Root
- tero + pomo
- English cognates
- terrain, pomade
Examples
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We ate meat with potatoes.
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The potatoes grow under the ground.
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She cooked a soup from potatoes.
A potato is an earth-apple, exactly as in French pomme de terre and Dutch aardappel. Esperanto simply glued the calque into one word: + .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 15, lesson 12: terpomo, kilometro, konstanta and 7 more words.