"educational" in seven languages

Meaningeducational

Spanish

educativo

/edukaˈtibo/

learned

French

éducatif

/edykatif/

learned

fem.: éducative

Italian

educativo

/edukaˈtivo/

learned

Portuguese

educativo

/edukaˈtʃivu/

learned

Romanian

educativ

/edukaˈtiv/

learned

Catalan

educatiu

/ədukəˈtiw/

learned

fem.: educativa

English

educational

/ˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃənəl/

from Latin/French · Latin ĒDUCĀTIŌNEM + -al

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

The Latin ancestor

ĒDUCĀRE‘to bring up, rear’

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

The sisters build the adjective with -ivo/-if; English adds -al to education. All go back to ĒDUCĀRE 'to bring up' a child.

English relatives: education, educate