Translation
pavement, footway
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Word origin
From French trottoir, the place where you trot, built on trotter. Esperanto took the Paris word for the Paris invention, and so did most of Europe.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- trottoir
- English cognates
- trot
Examples
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The children played on the pavement in front of the house.
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A bicycle should not ride on the pavement.
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We walked along the pavement as far as the corner of the street.
British pavement, American sidewalk, one word. A is the
raised strip beside the strato where people walk and
vehicles do not. English cannot say that in a word both halves of the Atlantic
agree on. Esperanto can, and it did it by taking the French trottoir, which
means roughly the trotting-place.
One trap for British speakers. Pavement in British English also names the
paved surface itself, and Esperanto has a separate word for that: pavimo is
the paving, the made-up surface of a road or a yard, whether or not anybody
walks on it. So a road can have pavimo and no at all. Keep
for the footway and you will not go wrong.
The street furniture around it. Strato at 362 is
the street as a whole, vojo at 202 is the road or the
way, and vojkruciĝo is a junction. You go on the trotuaro, ride a
biciklo on the road, and cross where the paint is:
zebrostrio, the zebra crossing, which is as vivid in Esperanto as it is in
English.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 28, lesson 11: trotuaro, bovido, masto and 7 more words.