"federal" in seven languages
Meaningfederal
Spanish
federal
/fedeˈɾal/
learned
French
fédéral
/fedeʁal/
learned
plural: fédéraux
Italian
federale
/fedeˈrale/
learned
Portuguese
federal
/fedeˈɾaw/
learned
Romanian
federal
/fedeˈral/
learned
Catalan
federal
/fədəˈɾal/
learned
English
federal
/ˈfɛdəɹəl/
from Latin/French · Latin FOEDUS (perhaps via French fédéral)
English → ItalianfederalfederaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
FOEDUS (gen. FOEDERIS)‘treaty, alliance’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
This is a modern coinage from Latin FOEDUS 'treaty': a federation is states bound by a pact. Latin OE became a plain e in all four languages.
English relatives: federation, confederate, federalism
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In a sentence
- esAlemania es una república federal.
- frL'Allemagne est une république fédérale.
- itLa Germania è una repubblica federale.
- ptA Alemanha é uma república federal.
- roGermania este o republică federală.
- caAlemanya és una república federal.
- enGermany is a federal republic.
More in Ideas
- league (alliance; sports league)ligaliguelegaligaligălliga
- match, game (sport)partidomatchpartitapartidamecipartit
- model (version, example to copy)modelomodèlemodellomodelomodelmodel
- picture, imageimagenimageimmagineimagemimagineimatge
- attentionatenciónattentionattenzioneatençãoatențieatenció
- character (personality)caráctercaractèrecaratterecarátercaractercaràcter