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The suffix -aĉ- is used to denote badness of quality or condition, and forms words with a disparaging sense:
infano a child
infanaĉo a brat
virino a woman
virinaĉo a hag, crone
As a prefix, fi- indicates looseness of morals, lack of principles, depravity:
vorto a word
fivorto a bad, foul word
virino a woman
fivirino a slut, bad woman
— May 12, 2024 03:48PM
infano a child
infanaĉo a brat
virino a woman
virinaĉo a hag, crone
As a prefix, fi- indicates looseness of morals, lack of principles, depravity:
vorto a word
fivorto a bad, foul word
virino a woman
fivirino a slut, bad woman
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A trained linguist will probably acquire a reasonable command of Esperanto after no more than a dozen hours of study.
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A prefix for looseness of morals?! Is this for real?
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It's straight out of the book, which was written in the late 50s.
Searching for "Esperanto suffixes" on Google, I find that most lists include "fi-", but not all. It is usually glossed as something like "shameful, nasty, disgusting, filthy".
