Translation
ideal
Word origin
From Late Latin idealis, 'existing as a form', on Greek idea, the look or pattern of a thing. English ideal and idea come from the same word, one step apart.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- idealis
- English cognates
- ideal, idea
Examples
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His ideal was a world without war.
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We do not always reach our ideal.
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Many people laugh at such an ideal.
is the noun, the standard you aim at; ideala is the adjective and ideale the adverb, so an ideal solution is ideala solvo. Keep it apart from , which is just a thought and carries no approval. The word does a lot of work in Esperanto's own literature, where names the movement's hope that a shared second language would soften national quarrels.
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