Translation
to invade; to overrun, to swarm into
Word origin
From Latin invadere, 'to go into, to attack', from in- ('into') plus vadere ('to go, to walk'). The Latin verb is about striding in, which is why the word works for armies and for mice.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- invadere
- English cognates
- invade, invasion, evade, wade
Examples
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The army invaded the land of the neighbours.
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Mice overran our house in the winter.
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The soldiers invaded the town in the night.
is transitive and takes the place invaded as its object: , not . The noun is invado, the invader invadanto.
The second sense is worth having, because it is the one you will actually use. Anything that arrives in unwanted numbers can : mice in a kitchen, tourists in a small town, advertisements on a website. English switches to "overrun" or "swarm into" for these, but Esperanto is content with the one verb, and it is not felt as a strained metaphor. For the military sense the neighbouring vocabulary is milito, armeo and its opposite defendi.
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