"idea" in seven languages
Meaningidea
Spanish
idea
/iˈdea/
fem.learned
French
idée
/ide/
fem.learned
Italian
idea
/iˈdɛa/
fem.learned
Portuguese
ideia
/iˈdejɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
idee
/iˈdee/
fem.borrowed · French idée
Catalan
idea
/iˈdɛə/
fem.learned
English
idea
/aɪˈdiə/
from Latin/French · Latin (from Greek idéa)
English → ItalianideaideaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IDEAM‘form, archetype (from Greek idéa 'look, form')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Plato's word for the pure Form of a thing, borrowed by Latin philosophers. French gives it the usual feminine -ée.
English relatives: idea, ideal, idol (related Greek root)
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In a sentence
- es¡Buena idea!
- frBonne idée !
- itBuona idea!
- ptBoa ideia!
- roBună idee!
- caBona idea!
- enGood idea!