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Translation

kingdom, a land ruled by a king

Word origin

An Esperanto compound of reĝo, king, and lando, land. The first root goes back to Latin rex, regis, a king; the second is the Germanic land that English still uses on its own.

Origin
Esperanto compound
Root
reĝo + lando
English cognates
regal, regent, land

Examples

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The kingdom had three big cities.

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In the old kingdom the king lived in a castle.

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He travelled through the whole kingdom.

Read it straight off. Reĝo is a king, lando is a land, and the compound drops the -o of the first root: plus gives , a king's land. You will also see reĝolando with the vowel kept, which is equally correct and slightly easier to say; Esperanto lets you keep the joining vowel whenever the consonant cluster would be awkward.

and are not interchangeable. Regno is the state as a political entity: the realm, the polity, the thing with borders and a government. A republic is a . A is specifically a with a king at the top of it. So the United Kingdom is a , France today is a and was a until 1792, and if you want the abstract institution rather than the territory, that is o, kingship, or monarkio.

The rest of the set. o is a queen, a prince (the -- suffix is offspring), is to reign, a is royal, and is an empire. is to rule and gives o, a ruler of any sort, which is what you want when you do not know or do not care what title the person holds.

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This word is part of lesson 46.