"busy" in seven languages
Meaningbusy
Spanish
ocupado
/okuˈpado/
learned
French
occupé
/ɔkype/
learned
Italian
occupato
/okkuˈpato/
learned
Portuguese
ocupado
/okuˈpadu/
learned
Romanian
ocupat
/okuˈpat/
learned
Catalan
ocupat
/ukuˈpat/
learned
English
busy
/ˈbɪzi/
native English · Old English bisig
English → ItalianbusyoccupatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: occupied, occupy, occupation.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
OCCUPĀTUM‘seized, taken up’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
In Romance, busy is 'occupied' — taken up by something. The same word says a seat, a toilet or a phone line is taken.
English relatives: occupied, occupy, occupation
Learn it
In a sentence
- esHoy estoy muy ocupado.
- frJe suis très occupé aujourd'hui.
- itOggi sono molto occupato.
- ptEstou muito ocupado hoje.
- roSunt foarte ocupat azi.
- caAvui estic molt ocupat.
- enI'm very busy today.
More words from the same Latin
More in Describing words
- culturalculturalculturelculturaleculturalculturalcultural
- technicaltécnicotechniquetecnicotécnicotehnictècnic
- unique, onlyúnicouniqueunicoúnicounicúnic
- drysecosecseccosecouscatsec
- democraticdemocráticodémocratiquedemocraticodemocráticodemocraticdemocràtic
- excellentexcelenteexcellenteccellenteexcelenteexcelentexcel·lent