"exact" in seven languages
Meaningexact
Spanish
exacto
/ekˈsakto/
learned
French
exact
/ɛɡzakt/
learned
The final -ct is often silent: [ɛɡza]; feminine exacte.
Italian
esatto
/eˈzatto/
learned
Esatto! alone means 'exactly!'.
Portuguese
exato
/eˈzatu/
learned
Romanian
exact
/eɡˈzakt/
learned
Catalan
exacte
/əɡˈzaktə/
learned
English
exact
/ɪɡˈzækt/
from Latin/French · Latin EXĀCTUS
English → ItalianexactesattoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXĀCTUM‘weighed out precisely (from EXIGERE)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
From EXIGERE 'to drive out, weigh out': something exact has been weighed to the grain, the same root as exam. Italian assimilates both x and ct: esatto.
English relatives: exactly, exigent, examine
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In a sentence
- es¿Cuál es la hora exacta?
- frQuelle est l'heure exacte ?
- itQual è l'ora esatta?
- ptQual é a hora exata?
- roCât e ora exactă?
- caQuina és l'hora exacta?
- enWhat's the exact time?
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