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"capacity" in seven languages

Meaningcapacity

Spanish

capacidad

/kapaθiˈdad/

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French

capacité

/kapasite/

fem.learned

Italian

capacità

/kapatʃiˈta/

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Portuguese

capacidade

/kapasiˈdadʒi/

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Romanian

capacitate

/kapatʃiˈtate/

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Catalan

capacitat

/kəpəsiˈtat/

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English

capacity

/kəˈpæsəti/

from Latin/French · French capacité / Latin CAPĀCITĀTEM

English → ItaliancapacitycapacitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

CAPĀCITĀTEM‘room, capacity (from CAPERE 'to hold')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A textbook -TĀTEM word: -dad, -té, -tà, -ty. It covers both a container's room and a person's ability in all four languages.

English relatives: capable, capture, capacious

Sound laws at work

-TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tàC before E and I

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In a sentence

  • esEl estadio tiene una capacidad de 50.000 personas.
  • frLe stade a une capacité de 50 000 places.
  • itLo stadio ha una capacità di 50.000 posti.
  • ptO estádio tem capacidade para 50 mil pessoas.
  • roStadionul are o capacitate de 50.000 de locuri.
  • caL'estadi té una capacitat de 50.000 persones.
  • enThe stadium has a capacity of 50,000.

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