"ideal" in seven languages
Meaningideal
Spanish
ideal
/ideˈal/
learned
French
idéal
/ideal/
learned
Masculine plural idéaux (or idéals).
Italian
ideale
/ideˈale/
learned
Portuguese
ideal
/ideˈaw/
learned
Romanian
ideal
/ideˈal/
learned
Catalan
ideal
/ideˈal/
learned
English
ideal
/aɪˈdiəl/
from Latin/French · Late Latin IDEĀLIS
English → ItalianidealidealeCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IDEĀLEM‘existing as an idea (Late Latin, from Greek idéa)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Built on IDEA, Plato's word for the perfect pattern of a thing. English shifted the stress and the i; the sisters say it the way it is spelled.
English relatives: idea, idealist
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In a sentence
- esEs el sitio ideal para unas vacaciones.
- frC'est l'endroit idéal pour des vacances.
- itÈ il posto ideale per una vacanza.
- ptÉ o lugar ideal para umas férias.
- roE locul ideal pentru o vacanță.
- caÉs el lloc ideal per fer vacances.
- enIt's the ideal place for a holiday.
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