Translation
in solidarity, showing solidarity; jointly liable
Word origin
From French solidaire, first a legal term from the Latin phrase in solidum, for the whole, meaning that each debtor answers for the entire debt. The political sense of standing together came later.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- in solidum
- English cognates
- solidarity, solidary
Examples
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The whole town stood in solidarity during the strike.
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She wrote a letter to show that she stands in solidarity with them.
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He stayed in solidarity with his colleagues to the end.
The trap is (solid, rank 2562), and the -- sitting in the middle of this word is not the collective suffix. does not mean made of many parts and it does not mean firm. It means standing with somebody: .
The two words are distant cousins at the Latin end, both reaching back to us, whole, but Esperanto keeps them apart and so should you. The noun is o, the adverb e.
The second sense is the older one and still live in legal Esperanto: is joint and several liability, where each party can be made to answer for all of it. The labour movement borrowed the lawyers' word and made it a slogan, which is how a phrase about debt ended up on banners.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 57.