"club (association)" in seven languages
Meaningclub (association)
Spanish
club
/klub/
masc.borrowed · English club
plural: clubes
French
club
/klœb/
masc.borrowed · English club
Italian
club
/klab/
masc.borrowed · English club
Invariable; also said klub.
Portuguese
clube
/ˈklubi/
masc.borrowed · English club
Romanian
club
/klub/
neut.borrowed · English club (partly via French)
Catalan
club
/klup/
masc.borrowed · English club
English
club
/klʌb/
from Latin/French · Old Norse klubba 'cudgel'
English → Italianclub (association)clubCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
English club‘association (earlier 'cudgel')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The Old Norse word meant a cudgel; in 17th-century England a club became a society whose members 'club together', and that is the word the sisters borrowed. Each said its u its own way.
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In a sentence
- esSe apuntó a un club de lectura.
- frElle s'est inscrite dans un club de lecture.
- itSi è iscritta a un club del libro.
- ptEla entrou para um clube do livro.
- roS-a înscris într-un club de lectură.
- caEs va apuntar a un club de lectura.
- enShe joined a book club.