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Translation

to enchant, to spellbind

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from en, in or into, plus the root of sorĉi, to work magic. Sorĉi itself is usually traced to Latin sors, a lot cast for divination, by way of French sorcier, a sorcerer.

Origin
Esperanto compound
Root
en + sorĉ-
English cognates
sorcery, sorcerer, sortilege

Examples

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The old woman put the young king under a spell.

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His voice spellbound everyone in the room.

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The castle seemed enchanted by ancient magic.

A clean decode. Sorĉi, rank 1,507, is to work magic. - is the ordinary preposition en doing prefix duty. is to work magic into somebody: to put them under a spell rather than merely to cast one.

That - is not decoration. Look at what it changes:

  • - to do magic, to cast spells. It can stand alone with no object at all: .
  • - to enchant a person or a place. It needs a victim, and the victim goes in the accusative: .

The prefix is doing the same job it does in enfermi, the other genuine - build in this band: it takes a verb and points it into something.

The fairy-tale register, and the everyday one. The literal sense belongs to fabeloj - the sleeping castle, the transformed prince, the hundred years of thorns. But the figurative sense is alive and ordinary, and it is where you will actually use the word: a voice, a performance, a landscape or a person can you, and nothing supernatural is being claimed. English enchanting has made the same journey.

Derived forms. Ensorĉo is the spell laid on someone, means enchanted, and i is to break the spell - which is the whole plot of about a third of European folklore in one four-piece word.

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This word is part of lesson 53.