"extreme" in seven languages
Meaningextreme
Spanish
extremo
/eksˈtɾemo/
learned
French
extrême
/ɛkstʁɛm/
learned
Italian
estremo
/esˈtrɛmo/
learned
Italian writes s for Latin x: estremo, esempio.
Portuguese
extremo
/isˈtɾemu/
learned
Romanian
extrem
/eksˈtrem/
learned
Catalan
extrem
/əksˈtɾɛm/
learned
English
extreme
/ɪkˈstɹim/
from Latin/French · Old French extreme, Latin EXTRĒMUS
English → ItalianextremeestremoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXTRĒMUM‘outermost (superlative of EXTER)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Latin superlative: EXTER 'outside', EXTRĒMUS 'the most outside'. Italian simplified the x to s.
English relatives: extremity, extremist, exterior
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In a sentence
- esEn agosto el calor es extremo.
- frEn août, la chaleur est extrême.
- itAd agosto il caldo è estremo.
- ptEm agosto o calor é extremo.
- roÎn august căldura e extremă.
- caA l'agost la calor és extrema.
- enThe heat is extreme in August.
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