Translation
deputy, assistant holding an office
Word origin
From Latin adiunctus, the past participle of adiungere, to join to. The office is defined by the joining: somebody attached to another official to help and to stand in.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- adiunctus
- English cognates
- adjunct, adjoin, conjunction
Examples
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The deputy signed the letter instead of the director.
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She works as a deputy in the big office.
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When the boss is ill, the deputy leads the work.
An is the official joined to another one in order to help and to stand in when needed, which is exactly what the Latin says.
Esperanto has a native way of saying almost the same thing, the - prefixoid: vicdirektoro, vicprezidanto, vicurbestro. The difference is real if small. - names a post relative to a specific superior; is a rank in its own right and stands alone as a noun. It is also the more bureaucratic of the two, which may be all the guidance you need. Apposition and affix-like roots covers - and the rest of that family.
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