"angel" in seven languages
Meaningangel
Spanish
ángel
/ˈanxel/
masc.learned
French
ange
/ɑ̃ʒ/
masc.inherited
Worn down to one syllable, as spoken words are in French.
Italian
angelo
/ˈandʒelo/
masc.learned
Portuguese
anjo
/ˈɐ̃ʒu/
masc.inherited
Romanian
înger
/ˈɨndʒer/
masc.inherited
Latin AN- before a nasal became în- in Romanian.
Catalan
àngel
/ˈanʒəl/
masc.learned
English
angel
/ˈeɪndʒəl/
from Latin/French · Latin ANGELUS (via Old English and Old French)
English → ItalianangelangeloCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ANGELUM‘messenger (from Greek ángelos)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek 'messenger' that came in through Church Latin. The g before e shows its three outcomes: Spanish [x], French [ʒ], Italian [dʒ].
English relatives: angelic, evangelist
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esCanta como los ángeles.
- frElle chante comme un ange.
- itCanta come un angelo.
- ptEla canta como um anjo.
- roCântă ca un înger.
- caCanta com un àngel.
- enShe sings like an angel.
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