"calendar" in seven languages
Meaningcalendar
Spanish
calendario
/kalenˈdaɾjo/
masc.learned
French
calendrier
/kalɑ̃dʁije/
masc.learned
Borrowed from Latin but given the French -ier ending.
Italian
calendario
/kalenˈdarjo/
masc.learned
Portuguese
calendário
/kalẽˈdaɾju/
masc.learned
Romanian
calendar
/kalenˈdar/
neut.learned
Catalan
calendari
/kələnˈdaɾi/
masc.learned
English
calendar
/ˈkæləndɚ/
from Latin/French · Old French calendier, Latin CALENDĀRIUM
English → ItaliancalendarcalendarioCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CALENDĀRIUM‘account book (debts fell due on the Kalends, the 1st of the month)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Roman calendarium was a moneylender's ledger, since interest was due on the Kalends. Spanish and Italian keep learned -ario; French fitted it with its own -ier.
English relatives: calends
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In a sentence
- esApunté la fecha en el calendario.
- frJ'ai noté la date sur le calendrier.
- itHo segnato la data sul calendario.
- ptAnotei a data no calendário.
- roAm notat data în calendar.
- caVaig apuntar la data al calendari.
- enI wrote the date on the calendar.