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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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This word is taught in chapter 28, lesson 4: ambasadoro, redakcio, amerikano and 7 more words.