"crisis" in seven languages
Meaningcrisis
Spanish
crisis
/ˈkɾisis/
fem.learned
plural: crisis
French
crise
/kʁiz/
fem.learned
Italian
crisi
/ˈkrizi/
fem.learned
plural: crisi
Portuguese
crise
/ˈkɾizi/
fem.learned
Romanian
criză
/ˈkrizə/
fem.learned
Catalan
crisi
/ˈkɾizi/
fem.learned
English
crisis
/ˈkɹaɪsɪs/
from Latin/French · Latin crisis
plural: crises
English → ItaliancrisiscrisiCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CRISIM (Greek krísis)‘turning point (of an illness)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Greek krísis was a decision: the turning point of an illness, when a doctor could judge how it would end. Critic and criterion come from the same root.
English relatives: critic, critical, criterion
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In a sentence
- esEl país atraviesa una crisis económica.
- frLe pays traverse une crise économique.
- itIl paese attraversa una crisi economica.
- ptO país está passando por uma crise econômica.
- roȚara trece printr-o criză economică.
- caEl país travessa una crisi econòmica.
- enThe country is going through an economic crisis.