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"comfort (physical ease)" in seven languages

Meaningcomfort (physical ease)

Spanish

comodidad

/komodiˈdad/

fem.other source · Latin COMMODITĀTEM 'convenience' (learned)

Confort is also used.

French

confort

/kɔ̃fɔʁ/

masc.borrowed · English comfort (itself from Old French confort)

Italian

comodità

/komodiˈta/

fem.other source · Latin COMMODITĀTEM 'convenience' (learned)

Comfort, borrowed from English, is also common.

Portuguese

conforto

/kõˈfohtu/

masc.inherited

Old Portuguese conforto meant consolation; the 'physical ease' sense came later via French and English.

Romanian

confort

/konˈfort/

neut.borrowed · French confort

Catalan

comoditat

/kumudiˈtat/

fem.other source · Latin COMMODITĀTEM 'convenience' (learned)

English

comfort

/ˈkʌmfɚt/

from Latin/French · Old French confort

English → Italiancomfort (physical ease)comoditàNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: comfortable, discomfort.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

CONFORTĀRE (Late Latin)‘to strengthen’

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

The story

Old French confort meant 'consolation, support'; English gave it the sense of physical ease, and French borrowed it back as confort. Spanish and Italian say 'convenience' (comodidad, comodità), relatives of English commodity.

English relatives: comfortable, discomfort

Sound laws at work

-TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà

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In a sentence

  • esValoran la comodidad por encima de todo.
  • frIls privilégient le confort avant tout.
  • itDanno importanza alla comodità sopra ogni cosa.
  • ptEles valorizam o conforto acima de tudo.
  • roPun confortul mai presus de orice.
  • caValoren la comoditat per sobre de tot.
  • enThey value comfort above all.

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