"gene" in seven languages
Meaninggene
Spanish
gen
/xen/
masc.borrowed · German Gen
plural: genes
French
gène
/ʒɛn/
masc.borrowed · German Gen
Italian
gene
/ˈdʒɛne/
masc.borrowed · German Gen
plural: geni
Portuguese
gene
/ˈʒeni/
masc.borrowed · German Gen
Romanian
genă
/ˈdʒenə/
fem.borrowed · French gène (from German Gen)
Catalan
gen
/ʒɛn/
masc.borrowed · German Gen
English
gene
/dʒin/
from Latin/French · German/Danish Gen, coined by Wilhelm Johannsen (1909)
English → ItaliangenegeneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
GENOS (Greek, via Johannsen's Gen)‘birth, race, kind’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A 20th-century coinage, so the four words match almost letter for letter. Each language just reads the g its own way: Spanish x, French ʒ, Italian and English dʒ.
English relatives: genetic, genesis, genome, generation
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In a sentence
- esEste gen influye en el color de los ojos.
- frCe gène influe sur la couleur des yeux.
- itQuesto gene influisce sul colore degli occhi.
- ptEsse gene afeta a cor dos olhos.
- roAceastă genă influențează culoarea ochilor.
- caAquest gen influeix en el color dels ulls.
- enThis gene affects eye color.
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