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"landscape" in seven languages

Meaninglandscape

Spanish

paisaje

/pajˈsaxe/

masc.borrowed · French paysage

French

paysage

/peizaʒ/

masc.inherited

Built in French from pays 'country' + -age (16th c.).

Italian

paesaggio

/paeˈzaddʒo/

masc.borrowed · French paysage

Portuguese

paisagem

/pajˈzaʒẽj/

fem.borrowed · French paysage

Romanian

peisaj

/pejˈsaʒ/

neut.borrowed · French paysage

Catalan

paisatge

/pəjˈzadʒə/

masc.borrowed · French paysage

English

landscape

/ˈlændskeɪp/

other source · Dutch landschap, a painters' term

English → ItalianlandscapepaesaggioNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: peasant, pagan.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PĀGĒNSEM‘of the countryside (PĀGUS 'rural district')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

French paysage is 'the look of the pays', the countryside; Spanish and Italian borrowed it, reshaping -age as -aje and -aggio. English took its painters' word from Dutch instead.

English relatives: peasant, pagan

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In a sentence

  • esEl paisaje aquí es precioso.
  • frLe paysage ici est magnifique.
  • itIl paesaggio qui è bellissimo.
  • ptA paisagem aqui é linda.
  • roPeisajul de aici e superb.
  • caEl paisatge d'aquí és preciós.
  • enThe landscape here is beautiful.

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