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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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 49.