Translation
crown prince, the heir to a throne
Word origin
A compound of two borrowed roots on a German model: krono (from Latin corona) plus princo (from Latin princeps, 'first citizen'), assembled the way German assembles Kronprinz and Swedish kronprins.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound of two Latin roots
- Root
- krono + princo
- English cognates
- crown prince, Kronprinz
Examples
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The crown prince came to the celebration.
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When the king died, the crown prince took the crown.
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The crown prince is still very young.
Two words you already have. Krono at 1,413 is a
crown, princo at 268 is a prince, and glued together
they name the prince who is going to get the crown. Esperanto builds compounds
by putting the modifier first and the head last, so the second half is what the
thing IS and the first half tells you which kind: a is a prince, of
the crown-inheriting sort. o is the female equivalent and needs no
new root either.
It is not the same word as reĝido. That page
makes the point from its own side and it is worth having both halves.
is built from plus the offspring suffix --, so it says BORN: this
person is the king's child, and every one of a king's six sons is a .
says NEXT: exactly one person at a time is the heir, and which
person it is depends on succession law rather than on birth. A
need not even be a - a brother, a nephew or a cousin can hold the
position when there is no son. And on its own says neither; it is the
rank, and you can hold it by title, by marriage or by grant.
The word arrived with a specific era attached. It is a German-shaped compound, and in Esperanto's source period the Kronprinz was a headline figure across the imperial courts of Europe. That is why the word sits at rank 2,888 in a corpus from 1887 to 1930 and would sit far lower in one drawn from today. The reĝlando it points at is the thing he is waiting for, and the trono at 2,175 is where he sits when the waiting is over.
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