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"model (version, example to copy)" in seven languages

Meaningmodel (version, example to copy)

Spanish

modelo

/moˈdelo/

masc.borrowed · Italian modello

A fashion model is el/la modelo.

French

modèle

/mɔdɛl/

masc.borrowed · Italian modello

A fashion model is un mannequin.

Italian

modello

/moˈdɛllo/

masc.inherited

A fashion model is una modella.

Portuguese

modelo

/moˈdelu/

masc.borrowed · Italian modello

Romanian

model

/moˈdel/

neut.borrowed · French modèle / Italian modello

Catalan

model

/muˈdɛl/

masc.borrowed · Italian modello

English

model

/ˈmɑdəl/

from Latin/French · Middle French modelle, from Italian modello

English → Italianmodel (version, example to copy)modelloCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

*MODELLUM (from MODULUS, diminutive of MODUS)‘small measure’

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

The story

Renaissance Italian artists and architects made modello the word for a small-scale pattern, and Spanish, French and English all took it from them. Latin MODUS 'measure' sits underneath: mode, modest, moderate.

English relatives: module, mode, modest, mould

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  • esEste coche es el último modelo.
  • frCette voiture est le dernier modèle.
  • itQuesta macchina è l'ultimo modello.
  • ptEste carro é o último modelo.
  • roMașina asta e ultimul model.
  • caAquest cotxe és l'últim model.
  • enThis car is the latest model.

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