Esperanto.
An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
Meaning & usage
An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
Where this word comes from
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.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.