Translation
the press, the newspapers collectively
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from gazeto and the collective suffix -ar-. Gazeto comes from Italian gazzetta, the name of a small Venetian coin, which was what a printed news sheet cost in the sixteenth century.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- gazeto + -ar-
- English cognates
- gazette
Examples
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The press wrote about the new law.
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He worked for the press for twenty years.
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A free press is an important thing.
+ + o: a collection of newspapers, which in English is "the
press". No idiom to memorise and no metaphor to unpick - where English reached
for the printing machine, Esperanto simply pluralised the thing itself with
--, the same suffix that turns a word into a
vortaro and a tree into a forest.
It means the institution, not a stack of paper. raportis is
the press reported; is a free press; a
is a press conference. If you want an actual pile of magazines on a table, you
would name them: .
The people and the parts. A
ĵurnalisto writes for it, a
redaktoro edits it, a
gazeto is the periodical and a
ĵurnalo the daily paper, and what they all print is
novaĵoj. The Esperanto movement has had its own
since 1889, when La Esperantisto began, which is why the word turns
up so early in the corpus.
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