Translation
rape
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of sekso, from Latin sexus, and perforto, violence, which is itself per, by means of, plus forto, force. The word says what it means and claims nothing else.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on Latin roots
- Root
- sekso + perforto
Examples
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The law punishes rape as a serious crime.
is the legal and clinical term for rape. It decodes as : , rank 1411, plus , rank 1138, which is violence, and which is itself built from per, by means of, and , force. Violence of a sexual kind. The construction is deliberately plain, and it names the offence as violence rather than as sex, which is the correct framing in law and in medicine alike.
The register is formal. This is the word used in statute, in court, in a police report and in a medical record. It is not conversational vocabulary, and a learner needs it in order to read a news report or a legal text, which is the only reason it appears on a frequency list built from subtitles.
The verb is , and a person who commits the offence is a seksperfortinto. The person subjected to it is a , rank 1504.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 26, lesson 10: seksperforto, lulilo, modera and 7 more words.