"external" in seven languages
Meaningexternal
Spanish
externo
/eksˈteɾno/
learned
French
externe
/ɛkstɛʁn/
learned
Italian
esterno
/esˈtɛrno/
learned
Portuguese
externo
/esˈtɛhnu/
learned
Romanian
extern
/eksˈtern/
learned
Catalan
extern
/əksˈtɛrn/
learned
English
external
/ɪkˈstɝnəl/
from Latin/French · Latin EXTERNUS
English → ItalianexternalesternoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXTERNUM‘outward, outside’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italian turns Latin x into s or ss even in learned words: EXTERNUM → esterno, like esempio and esatto.
English relatives: exterior, extreme
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esSolo para uso externo.
- frUsage externe uniquement.
- itSolo per uso esterno.
- ptSomente para uso externo.
- roNumai pentru uz extern.
- caNomés per a ús extern.
- enFor external use only.
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