esperantism
/ɛspəˈɹæntɪzm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A feature or affectation of Esperanto.
noun
The practice of using or participating in the ideals of Esperanto.
Example Sentences
- "The international language idea would suffer a long eclipse; and when it emerged again, it would be in a form totally free from “Esperantisms” — most probably in the form of simplified Latin."
- "We are dealing here not with a poetic convention but with a fundamental characteristic of the language — a characteristic further illustrated in the ability to use grammatical morphemes as lexical units, thereby enriching the vocabulary with a whole series of lexemes derived from essentially grammatical devices: ano = membro, aĵo = objekto, aro = grupo, ejo = loko, eta = malgranda, ege = multe, ene = interne, and so on. These can be considered as authentic Esperantisms — as can constructions which in a sense move in the opposite direction: suni, furiozi, fervori, malĉasti, ebli, and others."
Etymology
From Esperant(o) + -ism.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɛspəˈɹæntɪzm/