Esperanto

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related Words 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 External links 2 Catalan 2.1 Noun 3 Czech 3.1 Noun 4 Dutch 4.1 Noun 5 Esperanto 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 5.3 See also 6 Finnish 6.1 Noun 7 German 7.1 Noun 8 Interlingua 8.1 Noun 9 Italian 9.1 Noun 9.2 See also 10 Norwegian 10.1 Noun 11 Polish 11.1 Noun 12 Portuguese 12.1 Noun 13 Romanian 13.1 Noun 14 Romanica 14.1 Noun 15 Spanish 15.1 Noun 16 Swedish 16.1 Noun

English

Pronunciation

• AHD (US): ĕs"pə-răn'tō, ĕs"pə-rän'tō
• IPA (US): /ˌespəˈræntəʊ/, /ˌespəˈrɑːntəʊ/
• SAMPA (US): /%esp@"r{nt@U/, /%esp@"rAːnt@U/
• IPA (?): /ɛspərˈaːntoʊ/
• SAMPA (?): /Esp@"rA:nt@U/

Etymology

from Esperanto esperanto (one who hopes), which derives from Latin sperare (to hope)

Noun

Esperanto

1. 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.
2. (Metaphorical) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media. Example: "The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency."

Related Words

• Esperantic
• Esperantist

Translations

Basque: esperanto Bulgarian: Есперанто Catalan: esperanto m Chinese: 世界语 /世界語 (Shìjiè-yǔ) Czech: esperanto n Dutch: Esperanto n Esperanto: Esperanto Finnish: esperanto French: espéranto m German: Esperanto n Greek: Εσπεράντο Gujarati: એસ્પેરાન્તો Hebrew: אספרנטו Hindi: एस्पेरान्तो Hungarian: Eszperantó Interlingua: esperanto Irish: Espeirantó m Italian: esperanto

Japanese: エスペラント (esuperanto), エスペラント語 (esuperanto-go) Klingon: 'eSperanto Korean: 에스페란토란 Lojban: bangrn­esperanto Norwegian: esperanto Persian: اسپرانتو Polish: esperanto Portuguese: esperanto m Romanian: esperanto, limba esperanto Romanica: esperanto m Russian: эсперанто Serbian: есперанто Spanish: esperanto m Swedish: esperanto Toki Pona: toki Epelanto Vietnamese: tiếng etperantô

External links

• Esperanto - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• Reta Vortaro (short : ReVo) a multingual dictionary with esperanto definitions and translations in many languages. Project started in 1997. You can link from Wikimedia project to ReVo typing [[ReVo:vort|vorto]] (= word) which becomes : vorto. See also ReVo

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Catalan

Noun

esperanto m

1. Esperanto.

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Czech

Noun

esperanto n

1. Esperanto.

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Dutch

Noun

Esperanto n

1. Esperanto.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA : /es.peˈran.to/
• SAMPA : /es pe"ran to/

Noun

Esperanto

1. Esperanto.

See also

• esperantisto

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Finnish

Noun

esperanto

1. Esperanto.

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German

Noun

Esperanto n

1. Esperanto.

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Interlingua

Noun

esperanto n

1. Esperanto.

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Italian

Noun

esperanto m

1. Esperanto.

See also

• esperantista

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Norwegian

Noun

esperanto

1. Esperanto.

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Polish

Noun

esperanto

1. Esperanto.

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Portuguese

Noun

esperanto m

1. Esperanto.

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Romanian

Noun

esperanto

1. Esperanto.

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Romanica

Noun

esperanto m

1. Esperanto.

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Spanish

Noun

esperanto m

1. Esperanto.

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Swedish

Noun

esperanto

1. Esperanto.