Translation
government
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from regi ('to rule', from Latin regere) plus -ist for the person and -ar for the collective, so a government is literally the body of professional rulers.
- Origin
- Esperanto (from Latin)
- Root
- regere
- English cognates
- regent, regime
Examples
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The government decided to change the law.
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The people do not trust the government.
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The new government promised the country peace.
A textbook piece of word-building: ---o, rule + person-who + collective. Where English borrowed "government" whole, Esperanto assembles it from parts you already own, which is why the word needs no memorising once you know . A single minister of the is a , its head a , and the act of governing is o. Note the difference from and , the realm and the state: the is the people currently running it, and it changes at elections.
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