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"comfortable" in seven languages

Meaningcomfortable

Spanish

cómodo

/ˈkomodo/

learned

French

confortable

/kɔ̃fɔʁtabl/

other source · English comfortable (itself from Old French conforter)

Commode means 'convenient' (and a chest of drawers).

Italian

comodo

/ˈkɔmodo/

learned

Portuguese

confortável

/kõfohˈtavew/

other source · French confortable, itself from English comfortable

Cômodo exists, but in Brazil the noun cômodo means 'a room'.

Romanian

comod

/ˈkomod/

learned

Confortabil, from French, is just as common.

Catalan

còmode

/ˈkɔmudə/

learned

English

comfortable

/ˈkʌmftɚbəl/

other source · comfort (Old French conforter, Latin CONFORTĀRE) + -able

English → ItaliancomfortablecomodoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: commodious, accommodate, commodity.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

COMMODUM‘fitting, convenient’

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

The story

Spanish and Italian took Latin COMMODUS from books. French borrowed comfortable back from English, a word built on Old French conforter 'to strengthen'.

English relatives: commodious, accommodate, commodity

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In a sentence

  • esEste sofá es muy cómodo.
  • frCe canapé est très confortable.
  • itQuesto divano è molto comodo.
  • ptEste sofá é muito confortável.
  • roCanapeaua asta e foarte comodă.
  • caAquest sofà és molt còmode.
  • enThis sofa is very comfortable.

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