"exception" in seven languages
Meaningexception
Spanish
excepción
/eksθepˈθjon/
fem.learned
French
exception
/ɛksɛpsjɔ̃/
fem.learned
Italian
eccezione
/ettʃetˈtsjone/
fem.learned
Italian assimilates the x: ecc- where the others write exc-.
Portuguese
exceção
/eseˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
excepție
/eksˈtʃeptsie/
fem.learned
Catalan
excepció
/əksəpˈsjo/
fem.learned
English
exception
/ɪkˈsɛpʃən/
from Latin/French · Old French exception, from Latin
English → ItalianexceptioneccezioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXCEPTIŌNEM‘a taking out (EXCIPERE 'to take out')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
From EXCIPERE 'to take out', built on CAPERE 'to take'. Spain's excepción has two θ sounds in a row; Italian turns the whole cluster into ecc-.
English relatives: except, accept, capture
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In a sentence
- esNo hay regla sin excepción.
- frIl n'y a pas de règle sans exception.
- itNon c'è regola senza eccezioni.
- ptNão há regra sem exceção.
- roNu există regulă fără excepție.
- caNo hi ha regla sense excepció.
- enThere's no rule without an exception.
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