fosilo
Esperanto
FWOTD – 22 March 2022
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- IPA(key): [foˈsilo]
- Rhymes: -ilo
- Hyphenation: fo‧si‧lo
Noun
fosilo (accusative singular fosilon, plural fosiloj, accusative plural fosilojn)
- shovel
- 1893, V. Ŝekspir (William Shakespeare), Hamleto regido de Danujo: Tragedio en kvin aktoj, tr. by L. Zamenhof, page 114.
- Jes, jes, kaj nun li estas apartenaĵo de sinjoro vermo; sendenta kaj batata sur la vangojn per la fosilo de tombisto.
- Why, e’en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade.
- (literally, “Yes, yes, and now it’s the property of Mister Worm; toothless and beaten on the cheek with the shovel of a gravedigger.”)
- 1903, Louis Beaufront, Grammaire et exercices de la langue internationale Esperanto, page 76:
- Per hakilo ni hakas, per segilo ni segas, per fosilo ni fosas, per kudrilo ni kudras, per tondilo ni tondas, per sonorilo ni sonorigas, per fajfilo ni fajfas.
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- Synonym: ŝovelilo
- 1893, V. Ŝekspir (William Shakespeare), Hamleto regido de Danujo: Tragedio en kvin aktoj, tr. by L. Zamenhof, page 114.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English fossil, Italian/French fossile, German Fossil, Spanish fósil, all from Latin fossilis (“retrieved from the earth, dug out, dug up; fossil”).
Related terms
- fosila (“fossil”) (attributive)
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