"danger" in sette lingue
Significatodanger
Spagnolo
/peˈligɾo/
m.dotta
Semi-learned (Old Spanish periglo): a fully popular outcome would have had j, as OCULUM → ojo.
Francese
/dɑ̃ʒe/
m.altra origine · Old French dangier 'power to harm', from Vulgar Latin *DOMINIĀRIUM (DOMINUS 'lord')
Péril, from PERĪCULUM, also exists but is more literary.
Italiano
/peˈrikolo/
m.dotta
Portoghese
/peˈɾigu/
m.dotta
Semi-learned: a fully popular outcome of -CUL- would have had lh, as OCULUM → olho.
Rumeno
/peˈrikol/
neutroprestito · Italian pericolo
Catalano
/pəˈɾiʎ/
m.ereditaria
Fully inherited: -CUL- became ll, as OCULUM → ull.
Inglese
/ˈdeɪndʒɚ/
altra origine · Old French dangier (Latin *DOMINIĀRIUM 'power, dominion')
L’antenato latino
PERĪCULUM‘trial, risk’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
French danger was first a lord's 'dominion' — being in someone's danger meant being in their power. Spanish peligro swapped the r and l of older periglo.
Parenti inglesi: peril, perilous; experience, expert (same root)
Imparala
In una frase
- es¡Peligro de muerte!
- frDanger de mort !
- itPericolo di morte!
- ptPerigo de morte!
- roPericol de moarte!
- caPerill de mort!
- enDanger of death!