Esperanto
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from 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”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑːntəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑntoʊ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -æntəʊ, -ɑːntəʊ
Proper noun edit
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.
- 2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s[2], The History Press, →ISBN:
- There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Esperanto.
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See also edit
- Category:Esperanto language
- Appendix:Esperanto Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Esperanto
Further reading edit
- 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
- Akademio de Esperanto
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.
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Esperanto n
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Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Esperanto (accusative Esperanton)
Derived terms edit
- 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”)
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Proper noun edit
Esperanto n (proper noun, strong, genitive Esperantos or Esperanto)
Usage notes edit
- 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 reading edit
- “Esperanto” in Duden online
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.
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Esperanto
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Interlingua edit
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Esperanto
Italian edit
Noun edit
Esperanto m (uncountable)
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Romanian edit
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Esperanto n (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of esperanto
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish esperanto or English Esperanto.
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Esperanto (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- Esperanto (language)
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Esperanto