Translation
dinner, evening meal
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto as a compound of vespero (evening, from Latin vesper) and manĝo (a meal, from the Romance manĝi root): the evening meal, named plainly.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- vespero + manĝo
Examples
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Dinner is ready!
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We invited friends to dinner.
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After dinner they sat and talked.
The meals name themselves by the clock: in the morning, at midday, in the evening. No dinner-tea-supper class warfare, no wondering whether "dinner" means noon or night - the compound tells you when you eat it. The verb versions follow for free: vespermanĝi is to have dinner, as in vespermanĝis , we had dinner together.
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