"gas" in seven languages
Meaninggas
Spanish
gas
/gas/
masc.learned
French
gaz
/gaz/
masc.learned
Italian
gas
/gas/
masc.learned
Portuguese
gás
/ɡas/
masc.learned
Romanian
gaz
/ɡaz/
neut.borrowed · French gaz
Catalan
gas
/ɡas/
masc.learned
English
gas
/gæs/
from Latin/French · the chemist J. B. van Helmont's coinage
In American English also short for gasoline — Spanish gasolina, French essence, Italian benzina.
English → ItaliangasgasCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
gas (17th-c. scientific coinage)‘modelled on Greek KHAOS 'chaos, empty space'’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Not an inherited word at all: the Flemish chemist van Helmont invented it, after Greek chaos, and every language took it from his Latin writings.
English relatives: chaos, gaseous
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In a sentence
- esLa cocina huele a gas.
- frLa cuisine sent le gaz.
- itIn cucina c'è odore di gas.
- ptA cozinha está com cheiro de gás.
- roBucătăria miroase a gaz.
- caLa cuina fa olor de gas.
- enThe kitchen smells of gas.