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"movement" in seven languages

Meaningmovement

Spanish

movimiento

/mobiˈmjento/

masc.inherited

Built on mover with the suffix -imiento.

French

mouvement

/muvmɑ̃/

masc.inherited

Built on mouvoir with the suffix -ement.

Italian

movimento

/moviˈmento/

masc.inherited

Built on muovere with the suffix -imento.

Portuguese

movimento

/moviˈmẽtu/

masc.inherited

Romanian

mișcare

/miʃˈkare/

fem.other source · long infinitive of mișca 'to move', from Latin *MISCICĀRE (MISCĒRE 'to mix')

Catalan

moviment

/mubiˈmen/

masc.inherited

English

movement

/ˈmuvmənt/

from Latin/French · Old French movement

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

The Latin ancestor

MOVĒRE (+ -MENTUM)‘to move (+ noun suffix)’

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

The story

Each sister made the noun itself from its own verb and the suffix -MENTUM: Spanish -miento, French -ment, Italian -mento. French also turned the unstressed o into ou (mouvement, mouvoir).

English relatives: move, motion, motor, emotion

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In a sentence

  • esNo hagas movimientos bruscos.
  • frNe fais pas de mouvements brusques.
  • itNon fare movimenti bruschi.
  • ptNão faça movimentos bruscos.
  • roNu face mișcări bruște.
  • caNo facis moviments bruscos.
  • enDon't make any sudden movements.

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