"automatically" in seven languages
Meaningautomatically
Spanish
automáticamente
/automatikaˈmente/
learned
French
automatiquement
/otɔmatikmɑ̃/
learned
Italian
automaticamente
/automatikaˈmente/
learned
Portuguese
automaticamente
/awtomatʃikaˈmẽtʃi/
learned
Romanian
automat
/awtoˈmat/
borrowed · French automatique
Romanian uses the adjective as the adverb, with no suffix.
Catalan
automàticament
/əwtumatikəˈmen/
learned
English
automatically
/ɔtəˈmætɪkli/
from Latin/French · Greek autómatos 'self-acting'
English → ItalianautomaticallyautomaticamenteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Greek autómatos‘acting of itself’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek adjective with the Romance adverb ending: es/it -mente, fr -ment, all from Latin MENTE 'with a mind'. Spanish keeps the adjective's written accent: automática + mente.
English relatives: automatic, automaton, automobile
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In a sentence
- esLa puerta se cierra automáticamente.
- frLa porte se ferme automatiquement.
- itLa porta si chiude automaticamente.
- ptA porta fecha automaticamente.
- roUșa se închide automat.
- caLa porta es tanca automàticament.
- enThe door closes automatically.
More in Little words
- barely, hardlyapenasà peineappenamalabiaamb prou feines
- necessarilynecesariamentenécessairementnecessariamentenecessariamenteneapăratnecessàriament
- primarily, mainlyprincipalmenteprincipalementprincipalmenteprincipalmenteîn principalprincipalment
- elsewhereen otra parteailleursaltroveem outro lugarîn altă parteen un altre lloc
- whereas (contrast)mientras quetandis quementreenquantoîn timp cementre que
- nowhereen ninguna partenulle partda nessuna parteem lugar nenhumnicăierienlloc