"identity" in seven languages
Meaningidentity
Spanish
identidad
/identiˈdad/
fem.learned
French
identité
/idɑ̃tite/
fem.learned
Italian
identità
/identiˈta/
fem.learned
Portuguese
identidade
/idẽtʃiˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
identitate
/identiˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
identitat
/idəntiˈtat/
fem.learned
English
identity
/aɪˈdɛntəti/
from Latin/French · French identité, from Late Latin IDENTITĀS
English → ItalianidentityidentitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IDENTITĀTEM‘sameness (from IDEM 'the same')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A late scholarly coinage from IDEM 'the same', so learned everywhere — yet it still lines up with the -TĀTEM pattern: -dad, -té, -tà, -ty.
English relatives: identical, identify, ID
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In a sentence
- esOcultó su verdadera identidad.
- frIl a caché sa véritable identité.
- itHa nascosto la sua vera identità.
- ptEle escondeu sua verdadeira identidade.
- roȘi-a ascuns adevărata identitate.
- caVa amagar la seva veritable identitat.
- enHe hid his true identity.
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