SPATHAM → espada · épée · spada
Italian and Romanian tolerate s + consonant at the start of a word (spada; Romanian spată, now the shoulder blade, while its sword is the loan spadă); Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan prop it up with e-, and French did too before letting the s fall silent — which is why so many French words begin with é where Spanish has es-.
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SPATHAM
‘sword (Latin: broad blade)’
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Latin accusative, from Greek; a broad two-edged blade
Italian and Romanian tolerate s + consonant at the start of a word (spada; Romanian spată, now the shoulder blade, while its sword is the loan spadă); Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan prop it up with e-, and French did too before letting the s fall silent — which is why so many French words begin with é where Spanish has es-.
Formele sunt scrise în AFI, Alfabetul Fonetic Internațional: un simbol, un sunet. Silabele accentuate poartă ˈ. Datele sunt aproximative și apar doar acolo unde manualele sunt de acord. 24 de călătorii ale cuvintelor.