"humanity" in seven languages
Meaninghumanity
Spanish
humanidad
/umaniˈdad/
fem.learned
French
humanité
/ymanite/
fem.learned
Italian
umanità
/umaniˈta/
fem.learned
Portuguese
humanidade
/umaniˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
umanitate
/umaniˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
humanitat
/umaniˈtat/
fem.learned
English
humanity
/hjuˈmænəti/
from Latin/French · Old French humanité
English → ItalianhumanityumanitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
HŪMĀNITĀTEM‘human nature; kindness, culture’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Both senses, 'all people' and 'kindness', go back to Latin. Italian drops the silent h in spelling too: umanità, umano.
English relatives: human, humane, humanities
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In a sentence
- esEs un crimen contra la humanidad.
- frC'est un crime contre l'humanité.
- itÈ un crimine contro l'umanità.
- ptÉ um crime contra a humanidade.
- roEste o crimă împotriva umanității.
- caÉs un crim contra la humanitat.
- enIt is a crime against humanity.
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