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"mortgage" in seven languages

Meaningmortgage

Spanish

hipoteca

/ipoˈteka/

fem.learned

French

hypothèque

/ipɔtɛk/

fem.learned

The lien on the property; the home loan itself is a prêt immobilier.

Italian

ipoteca

/ipoˈtɛka/

fem.learned

The lien on the property; the home loan itself is a mutuo.

Portuguese

hipoteca

/ipoˈtɛkɐ/

fem.learned

Romanian

ipotecă

/ipoˈtekə/

fem.learned

Catalan

hipoteca

/ipuˈtɛkə/

fem.learned

English

mortgage

/ˈmɔɹɡɪdʒ/

other source · Old French mort gage 'dead pledge'

English → ItalianmortgageipotecaNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: hypothecate.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

HYPOTHĒCAM‘pledge, security (Greek hypothḗkē 'something put under')’

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

The story

The sisters took the Roman lawyers' Greek word for a pledge, hypothēca. English kept the French legal phrase mort gage, a 'dead pledge' that dies once the debt is paid.

English relatives: hypothecate

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In a sentence

  • esEl banco tiene una hipoteca sobre la casa.
  • frLa banque a une hypothèque sur la maison.
  • itLa banca ha un'ipoteca sulla casa.
  • ptO banco tem uma hipoteca sobre a casa.
  • roBanca are o ipotecă pe casă.
  • caEl banc té una hipoteca sobre la casa.
  • enThe bank has a mortgage on the house.

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