"hero" in seven languages
Meaninghero
Spanish
héroe
/ˈeɾoe/
masc.learned
French
héros
/eʁo/
masc.learned
le héros: aspirated h, no elision (but l'héroïne)
Italian
eroe
/eˈrɔe/
masc.learned
Portuguese
herói
/eˈɾɔj/
masc.learned
Romanian
erou
/eˈrow/
masc.borrowed · French héros
Catalan
heroi
/əˈɾɔj/
masc.learned
English
hero
/ˈhɪɹoʊ/
from Latin/French · Latin HĒRŌS (from Greek)
English → ItalianheroeroeCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
HĒRŌEM (nom. HĒRŌS)‘hero, demigod (from Greek hḗrōs)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek word that came in through books everywhere. Careful with the feminine: Spanish heroína and Italian eroina also mean the drug heroin.
English relatives: heroic, heroine
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In a sentence
- esEl bombero es un héroe.
- frLe pompier est un héros.
- itIl pompiere è un eroe.
- ptO bombeiro é um herói.
- roPompierul este un erou.
- caEl bomber és un heroi.
- enThe firefighter is a hero.
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