"automatic" in seven languages
Meaningautomatic
Spanish
automático
/awtoˈmatiko/
learned
French
automatique
/otomatik/
learned
Italian
automatico
/autoˈmatiko/
learned
Portuguese
automático
/awtoˈmatʃiku/
learned
Romanian
automat
/autoˈmat/
borrowed · French automate
Catalan
automàtic
/əwtuˈmatik/
learned
English
automatic
/ɔtəˈmætɪk/
from Latin/French · Greek automatos, via automaton
English → ItalianautomaticautomaticoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
AUTOMATOS (Greek)‘acting of itself’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A modern learned word built on Greek automatos 'self-moving'. Only French flattens the au- to a plain o; Spanish and Italian still say both vowels.
English relatives: automaton, automation, auto-
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In a sentence
- esLas puertas son automáticas.
- frLes portes sont automatiques.
- itLe porte sono automatiche.
- ptAs portas são automáticas.
- roUșile sunt automate.
- caLes portes són automàtiques.
- enThe doors are automatic.
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