Translation
ambassador
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Word origin
From Italian ambasciatore by way of French, and behind that Medieval Latin ambactia, a mission or errand, which Latin had taken from the Gaulish ambactus, a servant sent about his master's business. English ambassador and embassy are the same word twice.
- Origin
- Latin, via Italian ambasciatore
- Root
- ambactia
- English cognates
- ambassador, embassy
Examples
.
The ambassador came to the palace to speak with the king.
Parizo.
She is her country's new ambassador in Paris.
.
The government sent an ambassador to the congress.
Another -or- fossil, and it is worth naming the class. Esperanto makes
agent nouns with -- for a profession and -- for a person characterised
by something. It has no -or- suffix at all. So is not
ambasad- plus an agent ending in any Esperanto sense - there is no root
ambasad- to strip it back to. The word came in already assembled, Latin
morphology and all, exactly like motoro,
redaktoro, , and
. When a root ends in - and refuses to divide, this is usually
why.
The proof is in the embassy. If -or- were a suffix here, the building
would be ambasadejo. It is not: it is o, the place of the
, with -- attached to the whole undivided root. Esperanto's own
morphology tells you where the seam is, if you watch what the language does
rather than what the word looks like.
The job, and the borrowed sense. An represents one state to
another, outranking a and a mere or envoy;
o is used where the sex is worth marking, and the modern habit is
simply to leave it off. Esperanto also borrows the figurative sense English
uses: a , or - and the movement says this about itself
often enough - every speaker as an .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 28, lesson 4: ambasadoro, redakcio, amerikano and 7 more words.