ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷(ˌ)tō noun
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Etymology: after Dr. Esperanto, pseudonym of Dr. L. L. Zamenhof died 1917 Pol. philologist and inventor of the language
1. capitalized : an artificial international language based as far as possible upon words common to the chief European languages
2. often capitalized : a usually artificial language or set of symbols common to or designed to be common to a widely diverse and especially international group
acetylsalicylic acid is the universal comforter known in the Esperanto of the laboratory as CH 3 CO 2 C 6 H 4 CO 2 H and almost everywhere else as aspirin — Berton Roueché
Russian is a second Esperanto taught in all schools of the constituent republics — L.A.Triebel
the language of vision is a ready-made esperanto , a lingua franca of supreme universality — Martin James
reached to all corners of the earth as though broadcast in some kind of Esperanto of the senses which was understood by all nations and in all tongues — Sacheverell Sitwell