Translation
objective, impartial
Word origin
Built on objekto, from Latin obiectum, 'the thing thrown before' the mind, plus the international -iv- ending. Something is objective when it belongs to the thing out there rather than to the person looking at it, which is exactly what the Latin says.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- obiectum
- English cognates
- objective, object, eject
Examples
.
We need an objective report on the matter.
.
Staying objective about one's own work is a difficult business.
.
A good journalist listens to both sides with an objective mind.
Where it does cut, and where it does not. Objekto
is a live Esperanto root at rank 688, so genuinely does contain a
word you already have. The -iv- on the end, however, is not one of the
official affixes: Esperanto's list is closed, and -iv- is not on it. It is a
real thing all the same, and the Reta Vortaro carries it as an unofficial
suffix for active capability, set against the Fundamental -- for
passive capability: kreiva, produktiva, informiva. The full picture,
including why and and are single roots you must not
cut at that seam even though they end the same way, is in
the unofficial affixes. Treat
as a borrowed international word that happens to sit on a root you
know, and do not go coining new ones with -iv-.
The pair, and only one half has a page. is what belongs to the
object; subjektiva is what belongs to the subject, the person doing the
looking. Esperanto has both, built on and subjekto exactly as you
would expect, and subjektiva has not yet earned a page in this course. The
nouns are o and subjektiveco, and the adverb objektive is the
form you will meet most often in argument: objektive , objectively
speaking.
Nearby, but not the same. Justa is fair, which is
about how you treat people. Neŭtrala is
uncommitted, which is about which side you are on. is about whether
your account matches the thing itself, and you can be objective and partisan at
once, which is the whole reason the word is worth having separately.
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