Esperanto
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (General American)
- Rhymes: -æntəʊ, -ɑːntəʊ
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto
- An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.
- (figuratively) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
- The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
- 1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193:
- [Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]
- 1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal[1], page 6A:
- I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.
- 1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:
- …making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Esperanto.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
- Category:Esperanto language
- Appendix:Esperanto Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Esperanto
Further readingEdit
- Reta Vortaro (short : ReVo) a multingual dictionary with esperanto definitions and translations in many languages. See also ReVo
- ISO 639-1 code eo, ISO 639-3 code epo (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Esperanto, epo (behind paywall)
- Akademio de Esperanto
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto n
Derived termsEdit
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Doktoro Esperanto ("Doctor Hopeful"), the pen-name of Esperanto's author, Dr. Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, when he published the language in 1887; from esperanto (“one who hopes”), from the verb esperi (“to hope”), from French espérer, Spanish esperar, ultimately from Latin spērō (“to hope”).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto (accusative Esperanton)
Derived termsEdit
- esperanta (“of or relating to Esperanto”)
- esperantano (“proponent of Esperanto”)
- Esperantido (“offshoot of Esperanto”)
- esperantigi (“to translate or transliterate to Esperanto”)
- Esperantio, Esperantujo (“notional land of Esperantists”)
- esperantismo (“the ideal of a neutral, universal auxiliary language”)
- esperantistiĝi (“to become an Esperantist”)
- esperantisto (“active user of Esperanto, Esperantist”)
- esperantologio (“linguistic study of Esperanto, Esperantology”)
- esperantologo (“specialist in Esperantology, an Esperantologist”)
- esperantumado (“use of Esperanto, Esperanto-related activities”)
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto n (proper noun, strong, genitive Esperantos or Esperanto)
Usage notesEdit
- The word can be used with or without a definite article: (Das) Esperanto ist eine Kunstsprache. (“Esperanto is a constructed language.”) The form with no article is generally more common, but the article is necessary in the genitive case (e.g. die Grammatik des Esperanto) and with the preposition in (e.g. die Pluralbildung im Esperanto).
Further readingEdit
- “Esperanto” in Duden online
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
Esperanto
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
Esperanto m (uncountable)
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AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
Esperanto
- Misspelling of esperanto.
RomanianEdit
NounEdit
Esperanto n (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of esperanto
TagalogEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish esperanto or English Esperanto.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Esperanto
- Esperanto (language)
Derived termsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Proper nounEdit
Esperanto