"climate" in seven languages
Meaningclimate
Spanish
clima
/ˈklima/
masc.learned
Masculine despite the -a, like other Greek -ma words: el clima, el problema.
French
climat
/klima/
masc.learned
Italian
clima
/ˈklima/
masc.learned
Portuguese
clima
/ˈklimɐ/
masc.learned
Romanian
climă
/ˈklimə/
fem.learned
Unlike its sisters, Romanian made it feminine: clima e blândă.
Catalan
clima
/ˈklimə/
masc.learned
English
climate
/ˈklaɪmət/
from Latin/French · Old French climat / Late Latin
English → ItalianclimateclimaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CLĪMA (from Greek klíma)‘slope; a zone of the earth’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Greek klíma was the 'slope' of the earth toward the pole, which sets the weather of each latitude.
English relatives: climatic
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In a sentence
- esEl clima aquí es templado.
- frIci, le climat est doux.
- itQui il clima è mite.
- ptO clima aqui é ameno.
- roClima de aici e blândă.
- caAquí el clima és suau.
- enThe climate here is mild.