Translation
king's son, prince by birth
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Word origin
Built, not borrowed: reĝo (from Latin regem, a king, by way of Italian re) plus the suffix -id-, which Zamenhof took from the Greek and Latin patronymic -ides seen in names like Priamides, the son of Priam.
- Origin
- Esperanto, from Latin regem plus the patronymic -ides
- Root
- reĝo + -id-
- English cognates
- regal, royal
Examples
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The king had three sons, and the youngest prince was the wisest.
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The king's son left the castle without saying a word.
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In the fairy tale the prince married a young girl from the village.
Decode it and the word tells you its own meaning.Reĝo is a king. -- is the offspring suffix. A
is therefore a king's child, and nothing else needs to be memorised.
That is worth pausing on, because English spent a Latin loan on the same idea:
prince comes from princeps, first citizen, and carries no information about
parentage at all. You can be a prince by title, by marriage or by act of
parliament. A is a prince by blood, because the word says so.
-- is fully productive and it is not only for royalty.Ido is the suffix standing alone as a word: offspring,
a young one. Attach it to any animal or any parent and you get the young of
that thing - a is a calf, a a chick, a o whatever it
is that hatches out of a dragon. The suffix is the reason Esperanto needs no
separate vocabulary for the young of every species, which is roughly forty
words English carries around for no linguistic reason.
Where it sits against princo. Both are in the
language and both are used. is the rank, and it is what you call
somebody at court. is the relationship, and it is what a story reaches
for when the point is that this young man is the king's son. A is a
king's daughter; a reĝlando is what he may one
day inherit.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 27, lesson 6: reĝido, rabato, lano and 7 more words.