"alert (warning)" in seven languages
Meaningalert (warning)
Spanish
alerta
/aˈleɾta/
fem.borrowed · Italian all'erta
French
alerte
/alɛʁt/
fem.borrowed · Italian all'erta
Italian
allerta
/alˈlɛrta/
fem.inherited
From the phrase stare all'erta 'to be on the height', i.e. on watch.
Portuguese
alerta
/aˈlɛhtɐ/
masc.borrowed · Italian all'erta
o alerta (masc.)
Romanian
alertă
/aˈlertə/
fem.borrowed · French alerte
Catalan
alerta
/əˈlɛɾtə/
fem.borrowed · Italian all'erta
English
alert
/əˈlɝt/
from Latin/French · French alerte, from Italian all'erta
English → Italianalert (warning)allertaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Italian all'erta (erta 'steep rise', from ĒRIGERE 'to raise')‘on the height, on watch’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italian soldiers stood all'erta, 'on the height', keeping watch; French and Spanish borrowed the call, and English took it from French.
English relatives: erect
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In a sentence
- esEl Gobierno emitió una alerta por inundaciones.
- frLe gouvernement a lancé une alerte aux inondations.
- itIl governo ha diramato un'allerta per le alluvioni.
- ptO governo emitiu um alerta de enchente.
- roGuvernul a emis o alertă de inundații.
- caEl Govern va emetre una alerta per inundacions.
- enThe government issued a flood alert.
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