poŝto

Ultimately from Italian posta, influenced by Slavic descendants like Polish poczta, Slovak pošta, Serbo-Croatian по̏шта (pȍšta), Russian по́чта (póčta). Doublet of fosto and posteno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoʃto/

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• Rhymes: -oʃto
• Syllabification: poŝ‧to

poŝto (accusative singular poŝton, plural poŝtoj, accusative plural poŝtojn)

1. a public institution (usually government-run) to deliver mail, post
2. mail distribution in general
3. one's mail, collectively
   • 1907, Frederiko Schiller, “La Rabistoj”, in La revuo orienta‎^[1], volume I, page 338:

     — La poŝto venis — Letero de nia korespondanto en Lepsiko....

     “The mail has come — A letter from our correspondent in Leipzig....”