Nay, if we look a little more nearly into this matter, and exactly compare different languages, we shall find that, though they have words which in translations and dictionaries are supposed to answer one another, yet there is scarce one often amongst the names of complex ideas, especially of mixed modes, that stands for the same precise idea which the word does that in dictionaries it is rendered by. There are no ideas more common and less compounded than the measures of time, extension, and weight; and the Latin names, HORA, PES, LIBRA, are without difficulty rendered by the English names, HOUR, FOOT, and POUND:
Ez dago ideia arruntagorik eta osagai gutxiagokorik, denbora, hedadura eta pisuko neurriena baino; eta latinezko hora, pes, libra zailtasunik gabe itzultzen dira ingelesezko hour, foot, pound hitzez;