Esperanto

See also: esperanto, esperantó, and espéranto

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EnglishEdit

Wikibooks

symbol of Esperanto

EtymologyEdit

From Esperanto esperanto (“one who hopes”), from French espérer, from Latin sperare (“to hope”). Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: ĕs"pə-răn'tō, ĕs"pə-rän'tō
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • IPA^(key): /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑːntəʊ/
• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/, /ˌɛspəˈɹɑntoʊ/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æntəʊ, Rhymes: -ɑːntəʊ

Proper nounEdit

Esperanto

2. 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.
3. (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.

QuotationsEdit

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Esperanto.

Derived termsEdit

• Esperantic
• Esperantist

TranslationsEdit

auxiliary language

• Albanian: esperanto (sq) n
• Arabic: إِسْبَرَانْتُو‎‎ (ar) m (ʾisbarantū), إِسْپَرَانْتُو‎‎ m (ʾisparantū)
• Armenian: էսպերանտո (hy) (ēsperanto)
• Assamese: এস্পেৰাণ্ট ভাষা (esperanto bhaxa)
• Asturian: esperantu (ast) m
• Basque: esperanto (eu)
• Belarusian: эспера́нта (be) n (espjeránta), эспэра́нта n (esperánta) (taraškievica)
• Breton: esperanteg (br) m
• Bulgarian: есперанто (esperanto)
• Catalan: esperanto (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 世界語 (zh), 世界语 (zh) (Shìjièyǔ)

• Czech: esperanto (cs) n
• Dhivehi: އެސްޕެރަންތޯ‎‎ (esperantō)
• Dutch: Esperanto (nl) n
• Esperanto: Esperanto (eo)
• Estonian: Esperanto (et)
• Finnish: esperanto (fi)
• French: espéranto (fr) m
• Galician: esperanto (gl) m
• Georgian: ესპერანტო (esṗeranṭo)
• German: Esperanto (de) n
• Greek: Εσπεράντο (Esperánto)
• Greenlandic: Esperanto
• Gujarati: એસ્પેરાન્તો (gu) (esperānto)
• Hawaiian: ‘ōlelo Ekepelānako
• Hebrew: אֶסְפֶּרַנְטוֹ‎‎ (he) (esperanto)
• Hindi: एस्पेरान्तो (hi) (esperānto)
• Hungarian: eszperantó (hu)
• Ido: Esperanto (io), Espo (io)
• Interlingua: esperanto
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓯᐱᕋᓐᑐ (iu) (isipirantu)
• Irish: Esperanto, Sprantais f
• Italian: esperanto (it)
• Japanese: エスペラント (ja) (Esuperanto), エスペラント語 (ja) (Esuperanto-go)
• Kashubian: esperanto n
• Kazakh: эсперанто (ésperanto)

• Korean: 에스페란토 (ko) (Eseuperanto)
• Kurdish: esperantoyî (ku) f
• Latin: Lingua Esperantica f, Lingua Zamenhofiana f
• Limburgish: Èspransj (li) n
• Macedonian: есперанто n (esperánto)
• Nahuatl: netēmachīliztlahtōlli, esperantotlahtōlli
• Norwegian: esperanto (no)
• Novial: esperanto
• Occitan: esperanto (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: єспєра́нто n (esperánto)
• Persian: اسپرانتو‎‎ (fa) (esperânto)
• Polish: esperanto (pl) n
• Portuguese: esperanto (pt) m
• Romanian: esperanto (ro), limba esperanto
• Russian: эспера́нто (ru) n (esperánto)
• Rusyn: есперанто n (esperanto)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Icyesiperanto
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еспера̀нто m, есперантски m

  Roman: esperànto (sh) m, esperantski (sh) m

• Sicilian: esperantu (scn) m
• Silesian: esperanto n
• Slovak: esperanto (sk) n
• Slovene: esperanto (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: esperanto n

  Upper Sorbian: esperanto (hsb) n

• Spanish: esperanto (es) m
• Swahili: Kiesperanto
• Swazi: sí-Speranto, síSperanto
• Swedish: esperanto (sv) c
• Thai: เอสเปรันโต (àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh), ภาษาเอสเปรันโต (th) (paa-săa àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh)
• Turkish: Esperanto (tr)
• Vietnamese: quốc tế ngữ (vi), tiếng quốc tế ngữ
• Volapük: Sperantapük (vo)
• Yiddish: עספּעראַנטאָ‎‎ (yi) n (esperanto)

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
• Ethnologue entry for Esperanto, eo
• Akademio de Esperanto

AnagramsEdit

• personate

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.pəˈrɑn.toː/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Es‧pe‧ran‧to

NounEdit

Esperanto n (uncountable)

1. Esperanto

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EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From the verb esperi (“to hope”), which ultimately derives from Latin sperare (“to hope”), and the affix -anto; meaning in Esperanto one who hopes. Doktoro Esperanto ("Doctor Hopeful") was the pen-name of Esperanto's author, Dr. Zamenhof, when he published the language in 1887.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /es.peˈran.to/, /es.peˈɾɐn.to/, /ɛs.pɛˈɾan.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Esperanto (accusative Esperanto)

2. Esperanto

Derived termsEdit

• esperanta (“of or relating to Esperanto”)
• esperantano (“proponent of Esperanto”)
• Esperantido
• esperantigi (“translate to Esperanto”)
• Esperantio, (dated) Esperantujo (“notional land of Esperantists”)
• esperantismo (“the ideal of a neutral, universal auxiliary language”)
• esperantistiĝi (“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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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛspəˈʁanto/

• audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Esperanto n (genitive Esperanto)

1. 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 (die Grammatik des Esperanto) and with the preposition in (die Pluralbildung im Esperanto).

Further readingEdit

• Esperanto in Duden online

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IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /espeˈranto/

Proper nounEdit

Esperanto

1. Esperanto

SynonymsEdit

• (dated) Esp.
• Espo

Derived termsEdit

• Esperantala
• Esperantisto
• Esperantismo

See alsoEdit

• esperanto

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

Esperanto

1. Esperanto

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

Esperanto m

1. Esperanto

See alsoEdit

• esperantista

AnagramsEdit

• pensatore
• speronate

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Esperanto m (uncountable)

• IPA^(key): /ˈispeˈɾɐ̃tʊ/

NounEdit

Esperanto m (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of esperanto.

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RomanianEdit

NounEdit

Esperanto n (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of esperanto

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Esperanto Esperanto.

Proper nounEdit

Esperanto

1. Esperanto