pot-o: pot, kettle, jug: earthenware or metal vessel used
for cooking or merely holding something; -edo: potful; -if-eyo:
a pottery; -if-isto: potter; lakto- -o: milk jug or
can; floro- -o: flower p.; -o fera: iron p.; terakota
-o: earthen p. — EFS
potas-o: potash. — DEFIRS
potenc-o:(math.) power; sis potenco quara:
six to the fourth power (64). Def.: Produkto qua
rezultas de multiplikado di nombro per su. — DeFIR
potencial-a, -o:(all senses) potential, possible.
? DEFIS
potent-a: powerful, potent, mighty; -(ul)o:
potentate; -eso: potency, might (cf. povo, fort-eso,
autoritato). — DEFIS
«pound»:(pl. -i) pound (sterling). — E
pov-ar:(tr., intr.) to be able (to do), can (do),
could, have the power to; -o: power, ability, force,
means, might; (polit.) a power, powerful country. Ex.: Ni
facas to quon ni povas. Me ne povis venar hiere. Me povabus
manjar ol, ma me ne hungris. La povo di la mento. V. exp.: vid. darfar.
? FIS
povr-a: poor, needy; -o, -ulo, -ino: poor person
(cf. indij-anto); -eso: poverty; -ajo: a
sorry thing (cf. meskin-ajo); -igar: to impoverish;
la mente povri: the poor in mind (in spirit). Ant.: richa.
? EFIS
poz-ar:(tr., lit and fig.) to place, set, lay
(down), ground (cf. depozar); -eso: position (cf. situ-eso);
-ar kom principo: to state, lay down a principle; super-
-o: imposition: laying on. — FIS
pozicion-o:(milit., or strategical) position.
pozitiv-a: (math., elec., philos., gram.) positive;
-em-ulo: a person of positive ideas; practical,
matter-of-fact person; -ismo: (philos.) positivism;
-ista, -isto: positivist. Ant.: negativa. — DEFIRS
pozolan-o: pozzolana, a mortar made from volcanic ashes. —
DeFIS
pragmat-o:(philos.) matter-of-fact, reality;
«fait accompli»; -ala: pragmatical: dealing with
practical values or consequences; -ismo: pragmatism; -isto:
pragmatist. — DEFIRS
pragmatik-o*:(hist.) pragmatic sanction.
praktik-ar:(tr.) to practice, put into practice,
exercise; to observe (a rule, etc.); -ala: pertaining to
practice or action, practical (matter); -ema: pratical,
experienced (person); -ebla: practicable, feasible,
possible; (of roads) passable; -isto: practitioner;
-anta: practising. Ex.: On praktikas la medicino,
l’agro-kultivado. Esas necesa praktikar longatempe, ante ke
on povas divenar habila. Praktikebla ideo, voyo. — DEFIS
pralin-o: praline, burnt almond. — DeF
pram-o:(nav.) pram(e): flat-bottomed boat used in
the Baltic. Def.: Speco di navo (barko) kun plata fundo, nur un
ponto, kun segli e remili; IV-462.
prat-o: meadow. — FIS
pre-aranj-ar:(tr.) to prearange, to provide (for
or against).
pre-av-ino: great grandmother; -av-ulo: great
grandfather.
prebend-o: prebend, stipend granted to a prebendary; -iero:
prebendary. — DEFIS
prec-o:(lit. and fig.) price, charge; (fig.)
expense; kusto-preco: cost price; -oza: costly,
expensive, valuable, precious (in money value); -oza lapido:
precious stone; -oz-eso: preciousness; -oz-ajo: a
precious thing; fabrik- -o: cost of making, manufacturing
cost; kozo super omna -o: a priceless thing; pro irga
-o: at any price; (fig.) cost what it will. — DEFIS
preced-ar:(tr.) to have, to take precedence of, to
go before in rank, importance, etc.; (cf. pre-irar); -o:
precedence: right or fact of precedency, priority; -anto:
one who has or takes precedence; predecessor (in office); (pl.)
predecessors, forefathers; -anta: antecedant, (cf. antea,
antecedento). Def.: Esir en plaso, ofico nemediate avan; -e:
pasar avan altru segun lego, regulo; VI-418. Ex.: Grava aferi
precedas la neimportanta. — EFIS
precedent-o: a precedent, authoritative case, example or
instance. — DEFIS
precept-o: precept, authoritative rule of action. — EFIS
preceptor-o: preceptor, tutor, instructor. — DEFIS
precesion-o: (astron.) precession (of the
equinoxes). — DEFIS
precipis-o: precipice; (fig.) calamity. — EFIS
precipit-ar:(tr., pr. and fig.) to precipitate,
cause to fall, hurry along, throw down, hurl headlong, dash down,
plunge; (chem.) to throw to the bottom of a vessel; -ar
su: to rush (upon); -ajo: (chem.) precipitate.
Ex.: Il precipitis su ek la fenestro. Precipitar naciono en
milito. — DEFIS
