Translation
character in a story, character in a play or film
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from rolo, a role, plus -ul-, the suffix for a person characterised by something. Rolo itself is French rôle, the roll of paper an actor's lines were written on.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- rolo + -ul-
- English cognates
- role, roll
Examples
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The main character of the novel is a young girl.
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I like that character more than the others.
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Every character in the book has a voice of its own.
(a role, rank 996) plus --, the suffix for a person defined by a quality: a is the person who has a part, which is to say a character in a story, a play or a game. The protagonist is the ĉefrolulo.
Do not reach for here. In Esperanto that word means character in the sense of temperament, the sort a person has rather than the sort a novelist writes. English uses one word for both and Esperanto refuses to, which is one of the places where the language is simply clearer than its sources. A typographic character, incidentally, is a .
Esperanta literaturo uses throughout, and it is the word you want for any discussion of a book.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 30, lesson 7: rolulo, adjunkto, haĝo and 7 more words.