farmisto

Decode it, then read the root carefully. Farmisto is farm- plus -ist-, the person-by-occupation suffix that gives instruisto a teacher and maristo a sailor. That much is easy. The awkwardness is the root, because farmi in Esperanto does not mean to farm in the English sense: it means to hold land on a lease, to rent a holding and work it. The base verb is not common enough to have earned a rank of its own on this list, so the derived word arrived first, and a learner meeting farmisto without this note would import the English meaning wholesale.

The kamparano fence. Kamparano at rank 1,736 is the word you want nine times out of ten: a country person, a villager, a farmer in the everyday sense, built from kamparo, the countryside, plus -an-. It says where somebody lives and how. Farmisto says what somebody holds and on what terms. In a nineteenth-century novel that distinction is the plot; in a modern sentence about who grows your vegetables, kamparano or terkulturisto is the safer choice.

The rest of the holding. A bieno at 1,262 is the farm or estate as a property, farmbieno spells out that it is leased, the rent is the farmpago and the landlord is the farmiganto - the one who lets it out, with the causative -ig- doing exactly the work the igi/iĝi article describes. Lui at 1,545 is the ordinary verb for renting anything at all, and it is what most speakers reach for instead.