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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

espéranto

Pronunciation / Transliteration: esperanto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Esperanto/ˌɛspəˈrɑːntoʊ/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"L'espéranto est une langue construite internationale."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An artificial international auxiliary language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 with the goal of fostering universal peace and international understanding.

    "Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn due to its regular grammar and phonetic spelling."
  2. 2

    Any constructed language intended for cross-cultural communication.

    "Linguists often study Esperanto as the most successful constructed international auxiliary language."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the pseudonym 'Doktoro Esperanto' used by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 when he published the first book detailing the language, Unua Libro. The pseudonym itself comes from the Esperanto verb esperi, meaning 'to hope', ultimately stemming from the Latin sperare.

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