"constant" in seven languages
Meaningconstant
Spanish
constante
/konsˈtante/
learned
French
constant
/kɔ̃stɑ̃/
learned
fem.: constante
Italian
costante
/kosˈtante/
learned
Italian drops the n before s: costante, costruire, istante.
Portuguese
constante
/kõsˈtɐ̃tʃi/
learned
Romanian
constant
/konsˈtant/
learned
Catalan
constant
/kunsˈtan/
learned
English
constant
/ˈkɑnstənt/
from Latin/French · Old French constant / Latin CONSTĀNS
English → ItalianconstantcostanteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CONSTANTEM‘standing firm’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Something constant 'stands together', unmoved. Italian simplifies NS to s in many learned words, so costante has no n.
English relatives: constancy, stand, instant, distant
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In a sentence
- esEl ruido es constante.
- frLe bruit est constant.
- itIl rumore è costante.
- ptO barulho é constante.
- roZgomotul este constant.
- caEl soroll és constant.
- enThe noise is constant.
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