"contract" in seven languages
Meaningcontract
Spanish
contrato
/konˈtɾato/
masc.learned
French
contrat
/kɔ̃tʁa/
masc.learned
Italian
contratto
/konˈtratto/
masc.learned
Portuguese
contrato
/kõˈtɾatu/
masc.learned
Romanian
contract
/konˈtrakt/
neut.learned
Catalan
contracte
/kunˈtɾaktə/
masc.learned
English
contract
/ˈkɑntɹækt/
from Latin/French · Old French contract
English → ItaliancontractcontrattoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CONTRACTUM‘agreement (lit. 'drawn together')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Even learned words got their CT simplified: t in Spanish and French, tt in Italian. The inherited treatment would have been ch in Spanish, as in hecho from FACTUM.
English relatives: contract, tractor, attract
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In a sentence
- esFirme el contrato aquí.
- frSignez le contrat ici.
- itFirmi il contratto qui.
- ptAssine o contrato aqui.
- roSemnați contractul aici.
- caSigni el contracte aquí.
- enSign the contract here.