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Esperanto

See also: esperanto, esperantó, and espéranto

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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.

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Esperanto

  2. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
    • 2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode‎[1], archived from the original on 18 July 2025, pages 2-3:
      Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.
    • 2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto‎[2], archived from the original on 1 November 2025, page 7:
      Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Esperanto.
  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.
    • 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[3], 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.
    • 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post‎[4], archived from the original on 31 March 2021:
      The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
    • 2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s‎[5], 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.

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Central Bikol

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Esperanto (Basahan spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜍᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. Esperanto (auxiliary language)

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

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

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Esperanto n

  1. Esperanto

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Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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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”).

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  • IPA(key): /espeˈranto/
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  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Audio 3:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anto
  • Syllabification: Es‧pe‧ran‧to

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Esperanto (accusative Esperanton)

  2. Esperanto

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German

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto, pseudonym of L. L. Zamenhof, from esperanto (“one who hopes”), from esperi (“to hope”).

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

    1. Esperanto
      • 2011 November, “Spracherfindung und ihre Ziele”, in GIL‎[6], archived from the original on 27 June 2021, page 51:
        Diskussionen zum Toki Pona im Internet werden gewöhnlich auf Englisch oder auf Esperanto geführt, wenn schon nicht in der Sprache selbst geschrieben wird.
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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).

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    • “Esperanto” in Duden online
    • “Esperanto”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[7] (in German)

    Ido

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    Borrowed from Esperanto Esperanto.

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    Esperanto

    1. Esperanto

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    Interlingua

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    Noun

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    Esperanto

    1. Esperanto

    Italian

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    Esperanto m (uncountable)

    1. Esperanto

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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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    Esperanto (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

    1. Esperanto (auxiliary language)

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    • “Esperanto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 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.

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    Esperanto

    1. Esperanto
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