"complicated" in seven languages
Meaningcomplicated
Spanish
complicado
/kompliˈkado/
learned
French
compliqué
/kɔ̃plike/
learned
Italian
complicato
/kompliˈkato/
learned
Portuguese
complicado
/kõpliˈkadu/
learned
Romanian
complicat
/kompliˈkat/
learned
Catalan
complicat
/kumpliˈkat/
learned
English
complicated
/ˈkɑmpləkeɪtɪd/
from Latin/French · Latin COMPLICĀTUS
English → ItaliancomplicatedcomplicatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
COMPLICĀRE‘to fold together’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Something complicated is 'folded together'. The participle ending shows each sister's habit: Spanish -ado, French -é, Italian -ato.
English relatives: complex, complicity, explicit, implicate
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In a sentence
- esEs más complicado de lo que parece.
- frC'est plus compliqué que ça en a l'air.
- itÈ più complicato di quanto sembri.
- ptÉ mais complicado do que parece.
- roE mai complicat decât pare.
- caÉs més complicat del que sembla.
- enIt's more complicated than it looks.
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