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Esperanto
Etymology
From fosi + -ilo.
Pronunciation
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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: ŝovelilo
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”).
Noun
fosilo (plural fosili)
- fossil
- fosila (“fossil”) (attributive)
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
fosilo f
- vocative singular of fosilă