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Translation

advertisement; advertising

Word origin

From Latin reclamare, to cry out against or cry out repeatedly, which is re- plus clamare, to shout. French réclame carried it into the modern commercial sense, and Esperanto took it from there.

Origin
Latin
Root
reclamare
English cognates
reclaim, clamour, exclaim

Examples

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The magazine is full of advertisements.

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We saw a long advert on the television.

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Good advertising sells even a bad product.

The - you can see is not the - you know. Esperanto really does have a productive prefix -, meaning again or back: to see again, to come back, i to give back. So invites you to split it, and then leaves you holding klamo, which is not a word in the language and never has been. The split fails, and the word has to be learnt whole.

What makes it a gift rather than a trap is that Latin agrees with you. Reclamare genuinely is - plus clamare, to shout - to shout back, to cry out against something. That is where English "reclaim" and "clamour" come from too. So the instinct is right about the history and wrong about the language: the seam was cut in Latin, the halves fused there, and Esperanto imported the finished word. It belongs with and in that class, and knowing the Latin still helps you remember it even though it gives you no rule you can reuse.

Advertising, not complaint. The commercial meaning arrived via French réclame in the nineteenth century, which is the sense Esperanto has. A is a single advertisement - in a paper, on a wall, on the television - and the mass noun advertising as an activity. The verb is reklami (to advertise), and note the object: you reklamas the product, not the customer. Keep it apart from anonci, to announce, which is neutral: a station a train, a company reklamas its wares. o is the poster or leaflet, o the advertiser, and o the hoarding it all goes on.

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This word is part of lesson 46.