"everything" in seven languages
Meaningeverything
Spanish
todo
/ˈtodo/
inherited
French
tout
/tu/
inherited
From a spoken *TŌTTUM, hence the double t of toute.
Italian
tutto
/ˈtutto/
inherited
From a spoken *TŪTTUM with emphatic double t.
Portuguese
tudo
/ˈtudu/
inherited
Romanian
tot
/tot/
inherited
Catalan
tot
/tot/
inherited
English
everything
/ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/
native English · Middle English every + thing
English → ItalianeverythingtuttoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: total, totally, totalitarian.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TŌTUM‘whole, all’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Speakers doubled the t of TŌTUM for emphasis, giving Italian tutto and French toute. Spanish kept the single t, which softened to d between vowels: todo.
English relatives: total, totally, totalitarian
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esTodo está listo.
- frTout est prêt.
- itÈ tutto pronto.
- ptEstá tudo pronto.
- roTotul e gata.
- caTot està a punt.
- enEverything is ready.
More words from the same Latin
More in Little words
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- togetherjuntosensembleinsiemejuntosîmpreunăjunts
- severalvariosplusieursdiversiváriosmai mulțidiversos
- a bit, a littleun pocoun peuun po'um poucopuținuna mica