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"method" in seven languages

Meaningmethod

Spanish

método

/ˈmetodo/

masc.learned

French

méthode

/metɔd/

fem.learned

Italian

metodo

/ˈmɛtodo/

masc.learned

Portuguese

método

/ˈmɛtodu/

masc.learned

Romanian

metodă

/meˈtodə/

fem.learned

Feminine, like French méthode.

Catalan

mètode

/ˈmɛtudə/

masc.learned

English

method

/ˈmɛθəd/

from Latin/French · Latin, from Greek

English → ItalianmethodmetodoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

METHODUM (from Greek méthodos)‘way of inquiry (meta + hodós 'road')’

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

The story

A method is a road you follow (Greek hodós). French kept the feminine gender the word had in Greek and Latin (la méthode); Spanish and Italian made it masculine.

English relatives: methodical, methodology

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In a sentence

  • esEs un método muy eficaz.
  • frC'est une méthode très efficace.
  • itÈ un metodo molto efficace.
  • ptÉ um método muito eficaz.
  • roEste o metodă foarte eficientă.
  • caÉs un mètode molt eficaç.
  • enIt's a very effective method.

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