🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Mosotho

Pronunciation / Transliteration: moˈzuːto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mosotho/məˈsuːtuː/
nounadjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Un Mosotho ha guidato la spedizione attraverso le montagne."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Lesotho, or a person of Sotho ethnicity.

    "The Mosotho artist proudly displayed traditional Basotho blankets in her international gallery exhibition."
  2. 2

    The Sesotho language, or a speaker thereof in specific anthropological contexts.

    "He learned to speak Mosotho fluently before embarking on his anthropological research in Maseru."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Sesotho language, meaning a person from Lesotho. It originates from the Bantu root languages of Southern Africa, reflecting the ethnonym used by the Basotho people to describe themselves.

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