"allergy" in seven languages
Meaningallergy
Spanish
alergia
/aˈleɾxja/
fem.borrowed · German Allergie
French
allergie
/alɛʁʒi/
fem.borrowed · German Allergie
Italian
allergia
/allerˈdʒia/
fem.borrowed · German Allergie
Portuguese
alergia
/alehˈʒiɐ/
fem.borrowed · German Allergie
Romanian
alergie
/alerˈdʒie/
fem.borrowed · French allergie, from German Allergie
Catalan
al·lèrgia
/əˈlɛɾʒiə/
fem.borrowed · German Allergie
English
allergy
/ˈælɚdʒi/
from Latin/French · German Allergie
English → ItalianallergyallergiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
German Allergie‘coined 1906 from Greek állos 'other' + érgon 'work'’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Not Latin at all: the Viennese doctor Clemens von Pirquet coined Allergie in 1906 from Greek 'other' + 'work'. Spanish stresses -ler-, Italian -gì-.
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In a sentence
- esTengo alergia al polen.
- frJ'ai une allergie au pollen.
- itHo un'allergia al polline.
- ptTenho alergia a pólen.
- roAm alergie la polen.
- caTinc al·lèrgia al pol·len.
- enI have a pollen allergy.