"battery (of a phone, car)" in seven languages
Meaningbattery (of a phone, car)
Spanish
/bateˈɾia/
fem.borrowed · French batterie
A small AA battery is una pila; batería is also a drum kit.
French
/batʁi/
fem.inherited
Built on battre 'to beat'; an AA battery is une pile.
Italian
/batteˈria/
fem.borrowed · French batterie
An AA battery is una pila.
Portuguese
/bateˈɾiɐ/
fem.borrowed · French batterie
Romanian
/bateˈrie/
fem.borrowed · French batterie
Catalan
/bətəˈɾiə/
fem.borrowed · French batterie
English
/ˈbætəɹi/
from Latin/French · French batterie
The Latin ancestor
BATTUERE‘to beat’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A batterie was first a 'beating', then a group of guns pounding together, then a row of linked electric cells. All three sisters also say drum kit with the same word.
English relatives: battle, batter, combat, debate
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In a sentence
- esSe me ha acabado la batería del móvil.
- frMon téléphone n'a plus de batterie.
- itIl telefono ha la batteria scarica.
- ptA bateria do meu celular acabou.
- roMi s-a descărcat bateria la telefon.
- caSe m'ha acabat la bateria del mòbil.
- enMy phone's battery is dead.
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