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Sensto elect

Espagnol

elegir

/eleˈxiɾ/

savant

Also the everyday 'to choose'.

Français

élire

/eliʁ/

héréditaire

Only for votes; 'to choose' is choisir.

Italien

eleggere

/eˈlɛddʒere/

héréditaire

Conjugated like leggere: eletto 'elected'.

Portugais

eleger

/eleˈʒeh/

savant

Learned: inherited Portuguese drops a single -l- between vowels (DOLŌREM → dor), and eleger keeps it.

Roumain

alege

/aˈledʒe/

héréditaire

Alege is also everyday 'to choose'.

Catalan

elegir

/ələˈʒi/

savant

For everyday 'to choose' Catalan says escollir.

Anglais

elect

/ɪˈlɛkt/

du latin/français · Latin ēlēctus

Anglais → Italiento electeleggereApparentéMême source — héritée, savante ou empruntée. Vous pouvez le reconnaître.Ce que partagent le anglais et le italien

L’ancêtre latin

ĒLIGERE‘to pick out’

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

L’histoire

ĒLIGERE is 'to pick out' (LEGERE 'to gather, to read'), so French and Italian conjugate it like their verbs for reading (lire, leggere). Spanish elegir is the learned form and serves for any choice.

Parents anglais: election, elite, select, elegant

Lois phonétiques à l’œuvre

Initial I- (J-) and G before E, I

L’apprendre

S’entraîner avec le paquet Verbes essentiels Le faire deviner à un ami

Dans une phrase

esEligieron a un nuevo presidente.
frIls ont élu un nouveau président.
itHanno eletto un nuovo presidente.
ptElegeram um novo presidente.
roAu ales un nou președinte.
caVan elegir un nou president.
enThey elected a new president.

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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