"news" in seven languages
Meaningnews
Spanish
/noˈtiθjas/
fem.learned
Plural for 'the news'; una noticia is one piece of news.
French
/nuvɛl/
fem.other source · Latin NOVELLA 'new things' (plural of NOVELLUS)
The TV news is les informations or le journal.
Italian
/noˈtittsje/
fem.learned
Plural; il telegiornale is the TV news.
Portuguese
/noˈtʃisjɐs/
fem.learned
Romanian
/veʃtʲ/
fem.other source · Old Church Slavonic věstĭ 'news'
Plural of veste; the news on TV is știrile, 'things known', from ști ← SCĪRE.
Catalan
/nuˈtisiəs/
fem.learned
English
/nuz/
native English · Middle English newes 'new things', modelled on Old French noveles
The Latin ancestor
NOTITIAM‘knowledge, a being known’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Like English, the sisters say news in the plural, and the plural split shows: noticias, nouvelles, notícias, notícies with -s, Italian notizie with -e. French and English call it 'new things'; Romanian vești is Slavic.
English relatives: notice, notion, notify
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In a sentence
- esTengo buenas noticias.
- frJ'ai de bonnes nouvelles.
- itHo buone notizie.
- ptTenho boas notícias.
- roAm vești bune.
- caTinc bones notícies.
- enI have good news.