Translation
serviceman, military person
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from milito ('war') and the occupational suffix -ist-, so the word says one whose profession is war. Milito itself comes from Latin militia and miles, genitive militis, a soldier.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- milito + -ist-
- English cognates
- military, militia, militant
Examples
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His father was a serviceman for many years.
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The servicemen marched through the village.
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The young serviceman came home after the war.
Take it apart and it says what it is: milito plus --, the suffix that turns a field into the person who works in it, the same one behind and o. That makes wider than soldato, which is the soldier in the ranks; a is anybody whose trade is the military, officer or private, and often the word carries a faint chill in Esperanto texts, since the movement grew up hoping to make the profession unnecessary. The adjective is a, and militisma is something else again, militaristic.
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