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"agricultural" in seven languages

Meaningagricultural

Spanish

agrícola

/aˈɡɾikola/

learned

Same form for masculine and feminine: sector agrícola, región agrícola.

French

agricole

/aɡʁikɔl/

learned

Italian

agricolo

/aˈɡrikolo/

learned

Portuguese

agrícola

/aˈɡɾikolɐ/

learned

Romanian

agricol

/aˈɡrikol/

learned

Catalan

agrícola

/əˈɡɾikulə/

learned

English

agricultural

/æɡɹɪˈkʌltʃəɹəl/

from Latin/French · Latin AGRICULTŪRA

English → ItalianagriculturalagricoloCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

AGRICOLAM‘farmer (AGER 'field' + COLERE 'to till')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

English builds its adjective on agriculture; the sisters use AGRICOLA 'field-tiller', a Latin noun turned adjective. Learned everywhere.

English relatives: agriculture, cultivate, acre

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In a sentence

  • esEs una región agrícola.
  • frC'est une région agricole.
  • itÈ una regione agricola.
  • ptÉ uma região agrícola.
  • roEste o regiune agricolă.
  • caÉs una regió agrícola.
  • enThis is an agricultural region.

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