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masculine

/me.tal/

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Translation

metal

Word origin

From Latin metallum ('mine, quarry, metal'), borrowed from Greek metallon. The plural métaux follows the regular -al to -aux pattern.

Origin: Greek
Root: metallon
English cognates: metal, metallurgy

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralmétauxirregular

Examples

This knife is made of metal.

Cold metal burns the skin in winter.

A piece of metal fell off the roof.

Metals and plastic do not burn in the same way.

He has worked with metal for twenty years.

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This word is part of lesson 53.