"discovery" in seven languages
Meaningdiscovery
Spanish
descubrimiento
/deskubɾiˈmjento/
masc.inherited
French
découverte
/dekuvɛʁt/
fem.inherited
Italian
scoperta
/skoˈpɛrta/
fem.inherited
Portuguese
descoberta
/deskoˈbɛhtɐ/
fem.inherited
Romanian
descoperire
/deskopeˈrire/
fem.inherited
The verbal noun of descoperi, from spoken Latin *DISCOOPERĪRE.
Catalan
descobriment
/dəskubɾiˈmen/
masc.inherited
English
discovery
/dɪˈskʌvɚi/
from Latin/French · discover (Old French descovrir) + -y
English → ItaliandiscoveryscopertaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
DISCOOPERĪRE (Late Latin)‘to uncover’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
French and Italian turned the feminine past participle into the noun ('the uncovered thing'); Spanish added -miento instead. The Latin p became b in Spanish and v in French, but stayed p in Italian.
English relatives: discover, cover, recover
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In a sentence
- esFue un descubrimiento importante.
- frC'était une découverte importante.
- itÈ stata una scoperta importante.
- ptFoi uma descoberta importante.
- roA fost o descoperire importantă.
- caVa ser un descobriment important.
- enIt was an important discovery.
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