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"component" in seven languages

Meaningcomponent

Spanish

componente

/kompoˈnente/

masc.learned

French

composant

/kɔ̃pozɑ̃/

masc.learned

Participle of composer, the French reshaping of COMPŌNERE after poser.

Italian

componente

/kompoˈnɛnte/

masc.learned

Portuguese

componente

/kõpoˈnẽtʃi/

masc.learned

Romanian

componentă

/kompoˈnentə/

fem.learned

Catalan

component

/kumpuˈnen/

masc.learned

English

component

/kəmˈpoʊnənt/

from Latin/French · Latin COMPŌNENTEM

English → ItaliancomponentcomponenteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

COMPŌNENTEM‘putting together (COMPŌNERE)’

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

The story

Spanish and Italian keep the Latin participle; French built composant on composer, which took its -poser from poser 'to put down'. English compound comes from the same verb.

English relatives: compose, compound, position

Sound laws at work

French vowel + nasal becomes a nasal vowel

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In a sentence

  • esEste componente es muy caro.
  • frCe composant coûte très cher.
  • itQuesto componente è molto caro.
  • ptEste componente é muito caro.
  • roComponenta aceasta e foarte scumpă.
  • caAquest component és molt car.
  • enThis component is very expensive.

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