Infinitive
adresi
Forms
Tenses
| Present | adresas |
| Past | adresis |
| Future | adresos |
| Conditional | adresus |
| Imperative | adresu! |
Participles
| Active past | adresinta |
| Active present | adresanta |
| Active future | adresonta |
| Passive past | adresita |
| Passive present | adresta |
| Passive future | adresota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Old French a-
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
8. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
9. Proto-Italic *dis-
10. Latin dīs-
11. Latin rēctus
12. Latin dīrēctus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
14. Latin -iāre
15. Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
16. Old French drecier
17. Old French adrecierder.
18. Old French adrece
19. Middle French adresse
20. French adresseder.
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22. Old French adrecierbor.
23. Middle English adressen
24. English addressder.
25. ▲
26. French adressebor.
27. Polish adresbor.
28. Russian а́дрес (ádres)der.
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30. French adresseubor.
31. German Adresseder.
32. Esperanto adreso
33. Proto-Italic *-jezi
34. ▲
35. Latin -ereinflu.
36. Latin -īre
37. French -irbor.?
38. ▲
39. Latin -īre
40. Spanish -irbor.?
41. Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
42. Latin -īre
43. Old Galician-Portuguese -ir
44. Portuguese -irbor.?
45. ▲
46. Latin -ire
47. Italian -irebor.?
48. ▲
49. Latin -iō
50. Romanian -ibor.?
51. Esperanto -i
52. Esperanto adresi
53. From adreso + -i.
Sample Sentences
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1910, E. L. Kearney (translator), La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 12,
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“Al kiu ĝi estas adresita?” demandis unu ĵurinto.
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“Ĝi tute ne estas adresita,” diris la Blanka Kuniklo. “Fakte, nenio estas skribita sur la eksteraĵo.”
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‘Who is it directed to?’ said one of the jurymen. (‘It isn’t directed at all,’ said the White Rabbit; ‘in fact, there’s nothing written on the outside.’)
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mendoj estu adresataj al... (orders should be sent to...)
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adresi al iu sian dankon (to address one’s thanks to someone)
Translations
address, to direct, as words
address, to direct in writing