amaso

See also: amasó

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French amas, Italian ammasso.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈmaso/
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Hyphenation: a‧ma‧so

Noun

amaso (accusative singular amason, plural amasoj, accusative plural amasojn)

mass (large quantity)

Li facile rekoneblas pro sia amaso da rufaj haroj.
He’s easy to recognized because of his mass of red hair.

Ĉiutage nin bombardas amaso da informoj.
Every day we are bombarded with a mass of information.
heap, pile, stack

Amasoj da libroj kovris ŝian skribtablon.
Piles of books covered her desk.

La aŭto fiksiĝis en amaso da neĝo.
The car got stuck in a pile of snow.
crowd (of people), flock, herd (of animals)

Li vane penis eliri el la amaso.
He tried in vain to get out of the crowd.

Sur la montetoj vidiĝis amasoj da paŝtiĝantaj ŝafoj.
On the hills, flocks of sheep could be seen grazing.

Derived terms

Terms derived from amaso

amasa (“mass (adj.)”)
amasarestado (“mass arrest”)
amasbuĉi (“to massacre”)
amasdetrua armilo (“weapon of mass destruction”)
amase (“en masse”)
amasfabriki (“to mass produce”)
amasigi (“to amass”)
amasiĝi (“to gather (intrans.); to pile up”)

amasinformilo (“mass medium”)
amaskomunikilo (“mass medium”)
amasloĝejo (“dormitory; barracks”)
amasmemoro (“mass storage”)
amasmurdo (“mass murder”)
amasprodukti (“to mass produce”)
amasprotesto (“mass protest, demonstration”)

amastombejo (“mass grave”)
fojnamaso (“haystack”)
homamaso (“crowd”)
neĝamaso (“snowdrift”)
popolamaso (“populace, masses”)
stelamaso (“globular cluster”)
teramaso (“mound”)

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto amaso, from French amas, Italian ammasso.

Noun

amaso (plural amasi)

mass, pile, heap

Derived terms

amaseskar (“to accrue, pile, huddle”)
amasigar (“to heap up, amass”)

Spanish

Verb

amaso

First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of amasar.

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