Esperanto

n. 世界语

发音

UK /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/
US /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.

    世界语

    希望语

  2. 2.

    Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.

    比喻

    The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.

词源

A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

来源：wiktionary