Translation
community; commune, municipality
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from komuna (common, shared) plus the suffix -um, which is officially defined as having no fixed meaning at all. The root goes back to Latin communis, shared by all, which also gave English common and commune.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- communis
- English cognates
- common, commune, community
Examples
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Our community is small but strong.
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The whole community worked together.
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He is an important member of the community.
is one of the words the -um article exists to explain. Every other Esperanto affix has one fixed job; -um has none, and is the escape hatch the language reaches for when no rule builds the word it needs. From , shared, you would expect o for a shared thing, and -um instead delivers the people who do the sharing: a community, and in official prose a commune or municipality. There is no way to derive that from the pieces, which is exactly the lesson - -um words are vocabulary, not arithmetic. Members of one are oj.
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