"to choose" in sette lingue
Significatoto choose
Spagnolo
/eleˈxiɾ/
dotta
Also escoger, from spoken *EXCOLLIGERE.
Francese
/ʃwaziʁ/
altra origine · Gothic kausjan 'to taste, test'
Italiano
/ˈʃeʎʎere/
altra origine · Vulgar Latin *EXĒLIGERE 'to pick out', from ĒLIGERE
Portoghese
/iskoˈʎeh/
altra origine · Vulgar Latin *EXCOLLIGERE 'to pick out' (COLLIGERE 'to gather')
Rumeno
/aˈledʒe/
ereditaria
Catalano
/tɾiˈa/
altra origine · of uncertain origin
Escollir, the twin of Portuguese escolher, is used too.
Inglese
/tʃuz/
inglese nativa · Old English cēosan
Choose and French choisir go back to the same Germanic root.
L’antenato latino
ĒLIGERE‘to pick out (Ē + LEGERE 'to gather')’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
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.
Parenti inglesi: elect, election, elite, elegant
Imparala
In una frase
- esElige un color.
- frChoisis une couleur.
- itScegli un colore.
- ptEscolha uma cor.
- roAlege o culoare.
- caTria un color.
- enChoose a colour.
La famiglia latina
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
Altre parole dallo stesso etimo latino
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