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« affair (matter, business) » en sept langues

Sensaffair (matter, business)

Espagnol

asunto

/aˈsunto/

masc.autre source · Latin ASSŪMPTUM 'taken up'

Français

affaire

/afɛʁ/

fém.héréditaire

From à faire 'to be done'; les affaires is also 'business' and 'one's things'.

Italien

affare

/afˈfare/

masc.héréditaire

From a fare 'to do'; often 'a deal'.

Portugais

assunto

/aˈsũtu/

masc.autre source · Latin ASSŪMPTUM 'taken up'

Brazil's foreign ministry is the Ministério das Relações Exteriores; Portugal's, the Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros.

Roumain

afacere

/aˈfatʃere/

fém.héréditaire

Built in Romanian from a face 'to do' (FACERE), on the model of French affaire.

Catalan

afer

/əˈfe/

masc.héréditaire

From a fer 'to be done', exactly like French affaire from à faire.

Anglais

affair

/əˈfɛɹ/

du latin/français · Old French afaire (à faire 'to do')

Anglais → Italienaffair (matter, business)affareApparentéMême source — héritée, savante ou empruntée. Vous pouvez le reconnaître.Ce que partagent le anglais et le italien

L’ancêtre latin

FACERE‘to do, make’

Les six sœurs en descendent, sauf indication contraire ci-dessous.

L’histoire

French and Italian turned 'to do' into a noun: an affair is 'something to be done'. Spanish says asunto, 'a thing taken up'.

Parents anglais: affair, fact, factory

L’apprendre

S’entraîner avec le paquet IdéesLe faire deviner à un ami

Dans une phrase

  • esTrabaja en el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores.
  • frElle travaille au ministère des Affaires étrangères.
  • itLavora al Ministero degli Affari Esteri.
  • ptEla trabalha no Ministério das Relações Exteriores.
  • roLucrează la Ministerul Afacerilor Externe.
  • caTreballa al Ministeri d'Afers Exteriors.
  • enShe works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

La famille latine

FAC-, FACT-· do, make

FACERE is the busiest verb in Latin, and its participle FACTUM split cleanly in two: worn down in speech to hecho, fait, fatto, and borrowed back intact by scholars as fact, factual, faction. Spanish adds a twist of its own, turning Latin F- into a silent h- (Old Spanish fazer, fecho). Portuguese feito and Catalan fet vocalize the cluster as French does, while Romanian, true to the Eastern branch, turns -CT- into -pt-: fapt.

  • FACEREto do, make

    eshacerfrfaireitfareptfazerrofacecafer

  • FACTUMdone; a deed

    eshechofrfaititfattoptfeitorofaptcafetenfact

  • PERFECTUMcompleted, perfect

    esperfectofrparfaititperfettoptperfeitoroperfectcaperfecteenperfect

  • FACTIŌNEMa making; a party, faction

    frfaçonptfeiçãoenfashion

  • FACTIŌNEMa party, faction (learned)

    esfacciónfrfactionitfazioneptfacçãorofacțiunecafaccióenfaction

  • FACTŪRAMa making, workmanship

    esfacturafrfactureitfatturaptfaturarofacturăcafactura

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