Translation
body of guards, guard regiment
Word origin
From Italian guardia, by way of French garde, from a Germanic root meaning to watch. Esperanto gardi comes from the same Germanic root by a different route, which is why the two words look related and are.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- guardia
- English cognates
- guard, ward, warden
Examples
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The guard stood in front of the palace gate.
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The king trusted only his own guard.
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The young soldier joined the guard at the age of nineteen.
A is a body of troops, usually the elite or ceremonial sort: the royal guard, the old guard, the guard regiment on a palace gate.
It is not one person standing at a door. That is a o, and the verb is (rank 499). The distinction is worth holding because English collapses it: one English guard is a man, and another English guard is a regiment.
The pair is a nice accident of borrowing. The same Germanic root arrived in Esperanto twice, once through the ordinary verb and once through Italian military usage, and the language kept both.
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