polico
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from English and French police, Italian polizia, Polish policja, Russian поли́ция (polícija), German Polizei.[1][2] First attested in 1889.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈlit͡so/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -it͡so
- Syllabification: po‧li‧co
Noun
polico (uncountable, accusative policon)
- police, constabulary
- 2025 November 12, Thomas Bormann, “La nekredebla viv-historio de Dany Dattel”, in uea.facila[1], archived from the original on 11 December 2025:
- En 1943 la nazia polico forportis la familion Dattel el Berlino.
- In 1943, the Nazi police took the Dattel family away from Berlin.
Derived terms
adjectives
- polica (“relating to the police”)
nouns
- kaŝpolicisto (“plainclothes police officer”)
- policano (“police officer”)
- policejo (“police station”)
- policestro (“police chief”)
- policisto (“police officer”)
References
- ^ Ebbe Vilborg, “polico”, in Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto [Etymological Dictionary of Esperanto], volume 4, →ISBN, page 76
- ^ André Cherpillod, “polico”, in Konciza Etimologia Vortaro [Concise Etymological Dictionary], →ISBN
- ^ Neves; Pabst (2022), “polic/”, in Historia Vortaro de Esperanto, →ISBN, page 677
Further reading
Monolingual dictionaries
- “polico”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “polico”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
- Eichholz, Rüdiger (1988), “polico”, in Esperanta Bildvortaro, →ISBN, page 446
- Benson, William (1932), “polic-o”, in Universala Esperanto-Metodo[2], →OL, page 442
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈlit͡so/
Noun
polico (uncountable)
Derived terms
- policestro (“police chief”)
- policisto (“police officer”)
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
polico (Cyrillic spelling полицо)
- vocative singular of polica
Slovene
Noun
polico
- accusative/instrumental singular of polica