Translation
passenger
Word origin
From Italian passeggero and French passager, from a Romance verb meaning 'to pass', which goes back to Latin passus, a step. A passenger is somebody passing through.
- Origin
- Latin, via Italian
- Root
- passus
- English cognates
- passenger, passage, pace
Examples
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The passengers waited for the train at the station.
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Every passenger has to show their ticket.
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The ship carried a hundred passengers.
looks like three Esperanto pieces bolted together, and it is one borrowed root. There is no - plus -aĝ- plus -er- in it: the language has no -aĝ- suffix, the -er- that does exist means a single particle of something (o, a grain of sand), and neither is doing any work here. The whole of - came in from Italian.
A passenger travels; the crew works. Somebody who walks rather than rides is a piediranto, and the person doing the driving is the .
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