"truth" in sette lingue
Significatotruth
Spagnolo
/beɾˈdad/
f.ereditaria
Francese
/veʁite/
f.dotta
Old French had an inherited verté, later replaced by the learned form.
Italiano
/veriˈta/
f.ereditaria
plurale: verità
Portoghese
/vehˈdadʒi/
f.ereditaria
Rumeno
/adeˈvər/
neutroaltra origine · Latin VĒRUM 'true', in a prepositional phrase (DEX: ad de verum)
Catalano
/bəɾiˈtat/
f.dotta
Semi-learned: the medial t was not softened to d as in inherited words.
Inglese
/tɹuθ/
inglese nativa · Old English trēowþ
L’antenato latino
VĒRITĀTEM‘truth’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
Spanish wore VĒRITĀTEM down to two syllables by dropping the unstressed i; French re-borrowed the full Latin shape. ¿Verdad? doubles as Spanish 'right?' at the end of a sentence.
Parenti inglesi: verity, verify, verdict
Leggi fonetiche all’opera
Imparala
In una frase
- esDime la verdad.
- frDis-moi la vérité.
- itDimmi la verità.
- ptMe fala a verdade.
- roSpune-mi adevărul.
- caDigues-me la veritat.
- enTell me the truth.