Translation
throne
Word origin
From Greek thronos, a raised seat, by way of Latin thronus. The Greek word meant simply a chair of some dignity; the political weight came later, from what tended to be sitting on it.
- Origin
- Greek, via Latin
- Root
- thronos
- English cognates
- throne, enthrone
Examples
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The king sat on his throne.
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The young king took the throne after his father.
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The throne stood in the great palace.
has a false seam in it, and it is a sharp one because the suffix it
imitates is a real and common suffix. -On- makes fractions: is a half,
o a third, o a quarter, and the pattern is regular enough that a
learner reads -on- as a fraction on sight. Try it here and you get tr- plus
"one part of", which is a fraction of nothing. There is no root tr-. - is
the whole root, borrowed once from Greek and never taken apart since.
The word carries the same metonymy as in English. A is the chair, but
"the throne" also means the office and the person: is he
lost the crown, not he lost the furniture. sits beside it doing the same
double work, which makes the pair a tidy little lesson in how political
vocabulary gets built out of props.
i is a real verb - to sit enthroned, and by extension to preside over
something, usually with a hint that the presiding is more decorative than
useful. Surtroniĝi is to come to the throne and sentronigi is to depose,
both assembled out of pieces you already have.
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