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Translation

envoy, emissary

Word origin

Made inside Esperanto: sendi, to send, plus the passive past participle -it- plus the noun ending. The root sendi is Germanic, from German senden and English send.

Origin
Esperanto derivation, on a Germanic root
Root
sendi + -it-
English cognates
send

Examples

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The king sent his envoy to the enemy's town.

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The envoy carried a letter from the government.

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We waited for the envoy until the evening.

A is a sent one, and the word says so. Send- is the verb, -it- is the passive past participle - the thing has been done to him, he has been sent - and -o turns the participle into a person. This is the participial nominal at its plainest, the same machine that gives amato a beloved, kondamnito a convict and an acquaintance. Learn to read -into, -anto and -ito as three different people and a whole shelf of vocabulary opens at once: a sendanto is the one doing the sending, a sendinto the one who did it, a the one who was sent.

Not a delegito. The two are built identically and mean different things. A is chosen by a body to represent it and carries its authority - a congress delegate, a union delegate. A is simply somebody's sent man: a messenger, a courier, an emissary with an errand. One is a mandate, the other an errand.

In diplomacy it is a rank, not a synonym. An ambasadoro heads a mission; a is the lower grade below him, what English called an envoy in the days when the distinction was worth arguing over. For ordinary sentences the ordinary sense is safe, and if you want the neutral word for the man with the message, is waiting.

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This word is part of lesson 59.