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Esperanto (iou)



Esperanto noun & adjective. L19.
[from Dr Esperanto (Esperanto for 'Hoping One'), pen-name of its inventor (see below).]
(Of) an artificial language invented in 1887 for universal use by the Polish physician Dr L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), and based on roots common to the chief European languages with endings standardized.
Esperantist noun a person who knows Esperanto or advocates its use as a world language E20.