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Translation

to resign (from a post or office)

Word origin

From French démissionner, from Latin dimittere, to send away or let go. English dismiss and demise come from the same Latin verb, which is why the word points in two directions at once in English and only one in Esperanto.

Origin
French
Root
dimittere
English cognates
dismiss, demise

Examples

.

The minister resigned after the scandal.

, .

If you do not agree with the new rule, you can resign.

.

He resigned from his office after ten years.

Intransitive, and the direction matters. You yourself out of a job. You cannot demisii somebody else: sacking a person is , and the two are not to be swapped, because the entire political interest of the word lies in who did the deciding. The noun is demisio, the resignation itself, whether that means the letter or the act. demision is to tender it.

A borrowed root doing a job the affix system could already do. The Reta Vortaro says as much and gently prefers the built alternatives: , from - meaning former plus -- meaning to become, so literally to become an ex-holder of the post; or i, spelling out the office as well. Both are transparent to anyone who knows the affixes, which is the argument for them. is transparent to anyone who knows French, which is the argument against. In practice the international press style of Esperanto journalism uses constantly, so you will read it whichever side you take.

Not the same as . Rezigni is to give up or renounce anything at all, and it takes : , to give up on the trip. is narrower and formal, and it applies only to a post or an office. A minister who might merely have abandoned an argument. A minister who has gone.

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This word is part of lesson 49.