| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Esperanto |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Es·pe·ran·to |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   s p -r n t , -rän- |
| NOUN: | An artificial international language with a vocabulary based on word roots common to many European languages and a regularized system of inflection. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Dr. Esperanto, “one who hopes,” pseudonym of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917), Polish philologist. | | OTHER FORMS: | Espe·rantist —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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