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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