Translation
police
Word origin
An international word, from French police, which goes back through Latin politia to Greek politeia, the government of a polis or city.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- police
- English cognates
- police, policy, politics
Examples
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The police came very quickly.
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He immediately called the police.
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The police are looking for the robber.
is the force as a body, and unlike English it is grammatically singular: , not a plural verb. One officer is a o (a member of the police) or o (someone whose job it is). English speakers reach for a plural because "the police are"; resist it, the Esperanto word behaves like any other singular noun.
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