Translation
abominable, loathsome
Word origin
The base abomeni comes from Latin abominari, to reject as an ill omen, from ab (away) and omen. The Esperanto word then adds the suffix -ind-, worthy of, so it means worthy of being loathed.
- Origin
- Latin, via Esperanto derivation
- Root
- abominari
- English cognates
- abominate, abomination, omen
Examples
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That is an abominable crime.
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She found the idea loathsome.
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The soldiers did abominable things.
The base is real and it has a page: , to loathe, at rank 1334. Add -- (worthy of) and -a (adjective) and you have , worthy of being loathed. Nothing else is going on.
The suffix repays learning properly rather than word by word. a is worth believing, a is worth wanting, a is worth reading, is worth regretting. It always points outward, at the thing that deserves the reaction, never at the person having it.
Which is why the pair abomena and are not the same. Abomena would describe the loathing itself; describes what has earned it. English abominable smears the two together and Esperanto refuses to, and that small refusal is a fair advertisement for the whole affix system.
The etymology is a gift. Latin abominari meant to reject a thing as a bad omen, so at the bottom of sits omen, and the original sense was closer to superstitious dread than to disgust.
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