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Esperanto

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English

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Etymology

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A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (international language). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Esperanto

  1. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
  2. (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.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɛs.pəˈrɑn.toː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Es‧pe‧ran‧to

Proper noun

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Esperanto n

  1. Esperanto

Derived terms

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): [espeˈranto]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anto
  • Hyphenation: Es‧pe‧ran‧to

Proper noun

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Esperanto (accusative Esperanton)

  1. Esperanto

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German

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Esperanto n (proper noun, strong, genitive Esperantos or Esperanto)

  1. Esperanto

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Esperanto

  1. Esperanto

Synonyms

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Interlingua

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Noun

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Esperanto

  1. Esperanto

Italian

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Noun

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Esperanto m (uncountable)

  1. Esperanto

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Anagrams

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Romanian

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Noun

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Esperanto n (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of esperanto

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish esperanto, from Esperanto Esperanto, from esperanto (one who hopes).

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Proper noun

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Esperanto (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. Esperanto (auxiliary language)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Esperanto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 254

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Esperanto Esperanto.

Proper noun

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Esperanto

  1. Esperanto








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