"agent" in seven languages
Meaningagent
Spanish
agente
/aˈxente/
masc.learned
French
agent
/aʒɑ̃/
masc.learned
Italian
agente
/aˈdʒɛnte/
masc.learned
Portuguese
agente
/aˈʒẽtʃi/
masc.learned
Romanian
agent
/aˈdʒent/
masc.learned
Catalan
agent
/əˈʒen/
masc.learned
English
agent
/ˈeɪdʒənt/
from Latin/French · Latin
English → ItalianagentagenteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
AGENTEM‘doing, acting (from AGERE)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The one who 'does' on someone's behalf. In all three sisters a police officer can be an agente / agent de police, and an estate agent is an agente inmobiliario, agent immobilier, agente immobiliare.
English relatives: act, action, agency, agenda
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In a sentence
- esSu agente le encontró un nuevo papel.
- frSon agent lui a trouvé un nouveau rôle.
- itIl suo agente le ha trovato un nuovo ruolo.
- ptO agente dela conseguiu um novo papel para ela.
- roAgentul ei i-a găsit un rol nou.
- caEl seu agent li ha trobat un nou paper.
- enHer agent found her a new role.
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