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"amount, quantity" in seven languages

Meaningamount, quantity

Spanish

cantidad

/kantiˈdad/

fem.learned

Semi-learned: the ending wore down to -dad like inherited words.

French

quantité

/kɑ̃tite/

fem.learned

Italian

quantità

/kwantiˈta/

fem.learned

Portuguese

quantidade

/kwɐ̃tʃiˈdadʒi/

fem.learned

Romanian

cantitate

/kantiˈtate/

fem.learned

Catalan

quantitat

/kwəntiˈtat/

fem.learned

English

amount

/əˈmaʊnt/

other source · Old French amonter 'to go up' (à mont 'uphill')

English → Italianamount, quantityquantitàNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: quantity, quantify, quantum.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

QUANTITĀTEM‘how-much-ness, quantity’

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

The story

Latin built the word from QUANTUS 'how much'. The -TĀTEM ending shows up as -dad, -té, -tà, the same as English -ty in quantity.

English relatives: quantity, quantify, quantum

Sound laws at work

-TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà

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In a sentence

  • esHay que beber una gran cantidad de agua cada día.
  • frIl faut boire une grande quantité d'eau chaque jour.
  • itBisogna bere una grande quantità d'acqua ogni giorno.
  • ptÉ preciso beber uma grande quantidade de água todo dia.
  • roTrebuie să bei o cantitate mare de apă în fiecare zi.
  • caCal beure una gran quantitat d'aigua cada dia.
  • enYou need to drink a large amount of water every day.

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