"normal" in seven languages
Meaningnormal
Spanish
normal
/noɾˈmal/
learned
French
normal
/nɔʁmal/
learned
plural: normaux
fem.: normale
Italian
normale
/norˈmale/
learned
Portuguese
normal
/nohˈmaw/
learned
Romanian
normal
/norˈmal/
learned
Catalan
normal
/nurˈmal/
learned
English
normal
/ˈnɔɹməl/
from Latin/French · Latin NORMĀLIS
English → ItaliannormalnormaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
NORMĀLEM‘made with a carpenter's square (NORMA 'square, rule')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A NORMA was a carpenter's square: 'normal' first meant 'at right angles', and enormous is what falls outside the square.
English relatives: norm, normally, enormous
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In a sentence
- esEs normal estar nervioso.
- frC'est normal d'être nerveux.
- itÈ normale essere nervosi.
- ptÉ normal ficar nervoso.
- roE normal să fii emoționat.
- caÉs normal estar nerviós.
- enIt's normal to be nervous.
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