Translation
candidate; applicant
Word origin
From Latin candidatus, clothed in white, from candidus ('bright white'). A Roman seeking office wore a whitened toga so the crowd could see him coming, and the costume ended up naming the man.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- candidatus
- English cognates
- candidate, candid, incandescent
Examples
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Three candidates applied for the same post.
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The committee chose the youngest candidate.
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We will vote for our village's candidate.
Esperanto is broader than the English word suggests: a stands
for election, applies for a job, or sits an exam, and the same noun covers
all three. The -- sitting in the middle is a trap. Esperanto's --
makes offspring, so is a king's child, but a is not
the child of anything. The root is the whole borrowed -, and the
white toga is the only ancestry it has.
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