Translation
to protest, to object
Word origin
From Latin protestari, 'to declare publicly', from pro- 'forth, in front of' and testari 'to bear witness', from testis 'a witness'. The original sense was declaring something openly rather than objecting to it; the negative meaning came later, and the Protestants got their name from a formal declaration rather than a demonstration.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- protestari
- English cognates
- protest, testify, testament
Examples
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They protested against the new law.
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I want to object, because that is not fair.
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The students protested in the street for two days.
takes for the thing you are against and for the subject you are protesting about: , . It works at both volumes - a formal objection lodged in writing and a crowd in the street are the same verb.
The noun is protesto, and a demonstration is a protestmanifestacio or simply a . Esperanto's own history has a fair bit of this vocabulary in it: the language was banned or its speakers persecuted under several regimes in the twentieth century, and the movement's press has been protesting about something ever since. Note the difference from plendi, to complain, which is about grievance rather than opposition, and from rifuzi, which is refusing rather than objecting.
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