"alternative" in seven languages
Meaningalternative
Spanish
alternativa
/alteɾnaˈtiba/
fem.learned
French
alternative
/altɛʁnativ/
fem.learned
Italian
alternativa
/alternaˈtiva/
fem.learned
Portuguese
alternativa
/awtehnaˈtʃivɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
alternativă
/alternaˈtivə/
fem.learned
Catalan
alternativa
/əltəɾnəˈtibə/
fem.learned
English
alternative
/ɔlˈtɝnətɪv/
from Latin/French · French alternative / Medieval Latin
English → ItalianalternativealternativaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ALTERNĀRE‘to do by turns (from ALTER 'the other')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A learned word built on ALTER 'the other of two', the same ALTER that was inherited as otro, autre, altro.
English relatives: alternate, alter, other
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In a sentence
- esNo tenemos alternativa.
- frNous n'avons pas d'alternative.
- itNon abbiamo alternative.
- ptNão temos alternativa.
- roNu avem nicio alternativă.
- caNo tenim alternativa.
- enWe have no alternative.
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