"glory" in seven languages
Meaningglory
Spanish
gloria
/ˈɡloɾja/
fem.learned
French
gloire
/ɡlwaʁ/
fem.learned
Semi-learned: the Latin -ria was reshaped to -oire, as in histoire and mémoire.
Italian
gloria
/ˈɡlɔrja/
fem.learned
Portuguese
glória
/ˈɡlɔɾjɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
glorie
/ˈɡlorie/
fem.learned
Catalan
glòria
/ˈɡlɔɾiə/
fem.learned
English
glory
/ˈɡlɔɹi/
from Latin/French · Old French glorie
English → ItalianglorygloriaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
GLŌRIAM‘fame, renown’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A church word that never left the written language, so Spanish and Italian still spell it as Latin did. French gloire looks worn but is semi-learned: the same -ria → -oire as in histoire.
English relatives: glorious, glorify
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In a sentence
- esSoñaba con la gloria.
- frIl rêvait de gloire.
- itSognava la gloria.
- ptEle sonhava com a glória.
- roVisa la glorie.
- caSomiava amb la glòria.
- enHe dreamed of glory.
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