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Translation

to train, to coach

Word origin

A late borrowing straight from English train, which reached English from Old French trainer, 'to drag', and Vulgar Latin traginare. The sporting sense is a nineteenth-century English development, and Esperanto took the word for that sense specifically.

Origin
English
Root
train
English cognates
train, trail, tractor

Examples

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He trains the team every morning.

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She trained for three months before the competition.

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You can train the body and the mind as well.

is a young root and a narrow one. It means preparing a person or an animal for a performance, with a programme and usually a coach: , , sin maratono. The person doing it is a o and the session is a o.

Ekzerci is the older and wider word, and the two are not interchangeable. is drilling a specific faculty over and over - memoron, o - and sin is practising something for its own sake. A pianist sin ; a boxer sin . If there is a fixture at the end of it, ; if there is only the skill, .

For classroom teaching, neither: that is instrui.

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This word is part of lesson 39.