Esperanto

Etymology
. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called. The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

Proper noun

 * 1)  An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.
 * 2)  Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
 * 1)  Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, إِسْپَرَانْتُو
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: এস্পেৰাণ্ট ভাষা
 * Asturian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, эспэра́нта
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: еспера̀нто
 * Carpathian Rusyn: есперанто
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dhivehi: އެސްޕެރަންތޯ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ესპერანტო
 * German:
 * Greek: Εσπεράντο
 * Greenlandic: Esperanto
 * Gujarati:
 * Hawaiian: ‘ōlelo Ekepelānako
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Inuktitut:
 * Irish: Esperanto, Sprantais
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kashubian: esperanto
 * Kazakh: эсперанто
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: Lingua Esperantica, Lingua Zamenhofiana
 * Macedonian: еспера́нто
 * Malayalam: എസ്പെരാന്തോ
 * Nahuatl: netēmachīliztlahtōlli, esperantotlahtōlli
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, limba esperanto
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: Icyesiperanto
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: еспера̀нто, есперантски
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Silesian: esperanto
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: esperanto
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kiesperanto
 * Swazi: sí-Speranto, síSperanto
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: เอสเปรันโต,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:, tiếng quốc tế ngữ,
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From Doktoro Esperanto ("Doctor Hopeful"), the pen-name of Esperanto's author, Dr. Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, when he published the language in 1887; from, from the verb , from , , ultimately from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Esperanto

Usage notes

 * The word can be used with or without a definite article: (Das) Esperanto ist eine Kunstsprache. (“Esperanto is a constructed language.”) The form with no article is generally more common, but the article is necessary in the genitive case (e.g. die Grammatik des Esperanto) and with the preposition (e.g. die Pluralbildung im Esperanto).

Noun

 * 1) Esperanto

Etymology
or.

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) Esperanto