"extension" in seven languages
Meaningextension
Spanish
extensión
/ekstenˈsjon/
fem.learned
French
extension
/ɛkstɑ̃sjɔ̃/
fem.learned
Italian
estensione
/estenˈsjone/
fem.learned
For a phone extension Italian says interno.
Portuguese
extensão
/estẽˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
extensie
/eksˈtensie/
fem.learned
Catalan
extensió
/əkstənsiˈo/
fem.learned
English
extension
/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/
from Latin/French · Latin EXTENSIŌNEM (partly via French)
English → ItalianextensionestensioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXTENSIŌNEM‘a stretching out’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italian regularly turns ex- before a consonant into es-: estensione, esterno, esperto. Spanish and French keep the x in spelling.
English relatives: extend, extent, extensive, tense
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In a sentence
- es¿Cuál es la extensión de este archivo?
- frQuelle est l'extension de ce fichier ?
- itQual è l'estensione di questo file?
- ptQual é a extensão deste arquivo?
- roCe extensie are fișierul ăsta?
- caQuina és l'extensió d'aquest arxiu?
- enWhat is the extension of this file?
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