fosilo

Esperanto

FWOTD – 22 March 2022

Etymology

From fosi +‎ -ilo.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [foˈsilo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: fo‧si‧lo

Noun

fosilo (accusative singular fosilon, plural fosiloj, accusative plural fosilojn)

1. 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

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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”).

Noun

fosilo (plural fosili)

1. fossil

Related terms

• fosila (“fossil”) (attributive)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [foˈsilo]

Noun

fosilo f

1. vocative singular of fosilă