Esperanto

See also: esperanto, esperantó, and espéranto

English

Wikibooks

symbol of Esperanto

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æntəʊ, Rhymes: -ɑːntəʊ

Proper noun

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.
   • 1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:

     …making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.

Quotations

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

Derived terms

• Esperantic
• Esperantist

Translations

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 (Eseuperanto)
• Kurdish: esperantoyî (ku) f
• Latin: Lingua Esperantica f, Lingua Zamenhofiana f
• Limburgish: Èspransj (li) n
• Macedonian: еспера́нто n (esperánto)
• Malayalam: എസ്പെരാന്തോ (esperāntō)
• 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
• Tagalog: Esperanto (tl)
• 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 also

• Category:Esperanto language
• Appendix:Esperanto Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Esperanto

Further reading

• 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

Anagrams

• personate

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.pəˈrɑn.toː/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: Es‧pe‧ran‧to

Proper noun

Esperanto n

1. Esperanto

Derived terms

• esperantisme
• esperantist

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Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /espeˈranto/, /es.peˈɾɐn.to/, /ɛs.pɛˈɾan.tɔ/
• Hyphenation: Es‧pe‧ran‧to
• Rhymes: -anto

• Audio

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Proper noun

Esperanto (accusative Esperanton)

2. Esperanto

Derived terms

• esperanta (“of or relating to Esperanto”)
• esperantano (“proponent of Esperanto”)
• Esperantido
• esperantigi (“translate to Esperanto”)
• Esperantio, 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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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛspəˈʁanto/

• audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Esperanto n (genitive Esperanto)

1. Esperanto

Usage notes

• 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 reading

• Esperanto in Duden online

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /espeˈranto/

Proper noun

Esperanto

1. Esperanto

Synonyms

• (dated) Esp.
• Espo

Derived terms

• Esperantala
• Esperantisto
• Esperantismo

See also

• esperanto

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Interlingua

Noun

Esperanto

1. Esperanto

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Italian

Noun

Esperanto m

1. Esperanto

See also

• esperantista

Anagrams

• pensatore
• speronate

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Esperanto m (uncountable)

• IPA^(key): /ˈispeˈɾɐ̃tʊ/

Noun

Esperanto m (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of esperanto.

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Romanian

Noun

Esperanto n (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of esperanto

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Turkish

Etymology

From Esperanto Esperanto.

Proper noun

Esperanto

1. Esperanto