Translation
country dweller, villager; farmer, peasant
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Word origin
Built entirely inside Esperanto from kampo ('field'), which came from Latin campus. The root itself is the same one behind camp, campus and campaign.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation on a Latin root
- Root
- kampo + -ar- + -an-
- English cognates
- camp, campus, campaign
Examples
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The countryman works in the field from morning until evening.
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Many country people left the village and went to the town.
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My grandfather was a countryman and had five cattle.
This is the clearest two-suffix stack in the whole chapter, so read it slowly. is one field. -- makes a collection, so is all the fields together, which is to say the countryside. -an- makes a member or inhabitant, so is someone who belongs to the countryside. Field, countryside, country dweller: three words, two suffixes, no new roots.
English gives you 'peasant', which drags in poverty and a whiff of contempt. carries neither. It simply says where the person lives, the way o says the same about a town.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 4: kamparano, areo, kontribui and 7 more words.