Translation
to exile, to banish
Word origin
From Latin exilium, banishment, itself from ex, out of, plus a root meaning to wander. The Esperanto word is a straight international borrowing, taken whole.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- exilium
- English cognates
- exile, exit
Examples
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The king exiled the poet.
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They exiled him to a distant island.
, .
He lived in a foreign country, exiled by his own government.
Read slowly and the affix machinery misfires: - is the prefix for
a sudden start (i to set off, to cry out), so the eye wants
- plus a root zil-. There is no such root. is one indivisible
root, ekzil-, borrowed whole from Latin exilium, and the ekz- at the
front is the Esperanto spelling of Latin ex- in exactly the same way as in
(example) and (to exist).
The test is the same one teaches: an affix is only an affix when what
remains is a word you could meet on its own. Strip - here and you are left
with zili, which is nothing.
Around the root: ekzilo is exile as a condition, ekzilito is the person
exiled (the -it- passive participle plus the person ending), ekzilinto
would be the one doing the exiling. The
participles article covers that pattern in
full - it does a great deal of work in political and historical prose, which is
where this word lives.
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