"innovation" in seven languages
Meaninginnovation
Spanish
innovación
/inobaˈθjon/
fem.learned
French
innovation
/inɔvasjɔ̃/
fem.learned
Italian
innovazione
/innovatˈtsjone/
fem.learned
Portuguese
inovação
/inovaˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
inovație
/inoˈvatsie/
fem.learned
Catalan
innovació
/inubəˈsjo/
fem.learned
English
innovation
/ɪnəˈveɪʃən/
from Latin/French · Latin INNOVĀTIŌNEM
English → ItalianinnovationinnovazioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
INNOVĀTIŌNEM‘renewal (NOVUS 'new')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Making something NOVUS 'new': the learned word is the same in all four, while the inherited 'new' shows the open-o split, nuevo, neuf, nuovo.
English relatives: novel, novelty, renovate, new (kindred)
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In a sentence
- esLa empresa invierte en innovación.
- frL'entreprise investit dans l'innovation.
- itL'azienda investe nell'innovazione.
- ptA empresa investe em inovação.
- roCompania investește în inovație.
- caL'empresa inverteix en innovació.
- enThe company invests in innovation.
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