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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