"job, employment" in seven languages
Meaningjob, employment
Spanish
/emˈpleo/
masc.borrowed · French emploi (employer)
French
/ɑ̃plwa/
masc.inherited
Italian
/imˈpjɛgo/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
/ẽˈpɾeɡu/
masc.inherited
Romanian
/ˈsluʒbə/
fem.other source · Old Church Slavonic služĭba 'service'
Catalan
/ˈfɛjnə/
fem.other source · Latin FACIENDA 'things to be done'
The same word as 'work': buscar feina is 'to look for a job'.
English
/dʒɑb/
other source · origin uncertain (16th c.)
The Latin ancestor
IMPLICĀRE‘to fold in, involve’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
To employ someone was first to 'fold them into' a task. Italian shows the regular pl → pi (impiego); Spanish took the word from French — its own inherited descendant of the same verb family is llegar, from PLICĀRE 'to fold (the sails)', i.e. to arrive.
English relatives: employ, imply, implicate
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In a sentence
- esEstá buscando empleo.
- frElle cherche un emploi.
- itSta cercando un impiego.
- ptEla está procurando emprego.
- roÎși caută o slujbă.
- caBusca feina.
- enShe is looking for a job.