esperanto
/ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
name
Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency."
- "[Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]"
- "I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear."
- "[…]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality."
Etymology
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.
Word Breakdown
- Root: *speh₁-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/
- British English: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/