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Espagnol

elegir

/eleˈxiɾ/

savant

Also escoger, from spoken *EXCOLLIGERE.

Français

choisir

/ʃwaziʁ/

autre source · Gothic kausjan 'to taste, test'

Italien

scegliere

/ˈʃeʎʎere/

autre source · Vulgar Latin *EXĒLIGERE 'to pick out', from ĒLIGERE

Portugais

escolher

/iskoˈʎeh/

autre source · Vulgar Latin *EXCOLLIGERE 'to pick out' (COLLIGERE 'to gather')

Roumain

alege

/aˈledʒe/

héréditaire

Catalan

triar

/tɾiˈa/

autre source · of uncertain origin

Escollir, the twin of Portuguese escolher, is used too.

Anglais

choose

/tʃuz/

anglais natif · Old English cēosan

Choose and French choisir go back to the same Germanic root.

Anglais → Italiento choosescegliereSans lienSources différentes — celui-ci s’apprend de zéro. Mais l’anglais a des mots apparentés : elect, election, elite, elegant.Ce que partagent le anglais et le italien

L’ancêtre latin

ĒLIGERE‘to pick out (Ē + LEGERE 'to gather')’

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

L’histoire

Spanish took ĒLIGERE from written Latin; Italian scegliere grew from a prefixed spoken form. French went Germanic: choisir is from Gothic, a cousin of English choose.

Parents anglais: elect, election, elite, elegant

L’apprendre

Dans une phrase

  • esElige un color.
  • frChoisis une couleur.
  • itScegli un colore.
  • ptEscolha uma cor.
  • roAlege o culoare.
  • caTria un color.
  • enChoose a colour.

La famille latine

LEG-, LĒCT-· gather, read

LEGERE first meant 'to gather, pick', then 'to pick out letters', to read. Both senses survive: leer, lire, leggere for reading, and COLLIGERE 'gather together' in coger, cueillir, cogliere. The lesson family shows a neat doublet: French leçon is inherited, Spanish lección and Italian lezione are learned. Portuguese ler and Catalan llegir read too; Romanian reads with the Slavic citi, but kept the 'gathering' compounds: culege 'to pick' and alege 'to choose'.

  • LEGEREto gather; to read

    esleerfrlireitleggereptlercallegir

  • LĒCTIŌNEMa reading

    eslecciónfrleçonitlezioneptliçãorolecțiecalliçóenlesson

  • LĒCTŪRAM (Medieval Latin)a reading

    eslecturafrlectureitletturaptleiturarolecturăcalecturaenlecture

  • LĒCTŌREMreader

    eslectorfrlecteuritlettoreptleitorrolectorcalectorenlector

  • COLLIGEREto gather together

    escogerfrcueilliritcogliereptcolherroculegecacollirencull

  • ĒLIGEREto pick out

    eselegirfrélireiteleggereptelegerroalegecaelegirenelect

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