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"genetic" in seven languages

Meaninggenetic

Spanish

genético

/xeˈnetiko/

learned

French

génétique

/ʒenetik/

learned

Italian

genetico

/dʒeˈnɛtiko/

learned

Portuguese

genético

/ʒeˈnɛtʃiku/

learned

Romanian

genetic

/dʒeˈnetik/

learned

Catalan

genètic

/ʒəˈnɛtik/

learned

English

genetic

/dʒəˈnɛtɪk/

from Latin/French · modern coinage from Greek genesis

English → ItaliangeneticgeneticoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

GENESIS (Greek génesis)‘origin, birth’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A 19th-century scholarly coinage shared by all four languages. Only the g changes: Spanish x, French ʒ, Italian dʒ.

English relatives: gene, genetics, genesis

Sound laws at work

Initial I- (J-) and G before E, I

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In a sentence

  • esEs una enfermedad genética.
  • frC'est une maladie génétique.
  • itÈ una malattia genetica.
  • ptÉ uma doença genética.
  • roEste o boală genetică.
  • caÉs una malaltia genètica.
  • enIt is a genetic disease.

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