"north" in seven languages
Meaningnorth
Spanish
/ˈnoɾte/
masc.borrowed · French nord, from Old English norþ
French
/nɔʁ/
masc.borrowed · Old English norþ
Italian
/nɔrd/
masc.borrowed · French nord
Settentrione, from Latin SEPTENTRIŌ, is the formal word.
Portuguese
/ˈnɔhtʃi/
masc.borrowed · French nord
Romanian
/nord/
neut.borrowed · French nord
Catalan
/nɔɾt/
masc.borrowed · French nord
English
/nɔɹθ/
from Latin/French · Old English norþ (English is the source)
The ancestor
Old English norþ‘north’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The compass points sailed south from English: French took nord in the Middle Ages and passed it on. Latin SEPTENTRIŌ 'the seven ploughing oxen' (the Plough stars) survives only in formal words like Italian settentrionale.
English relatives: north, Norway, Normandy
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In a sentence
- esMilán está en el norte de Italia.
- frMilan est dans le nord de l'Italie.
- itMilano è nel nord dell'Italia.
- ptMilão fica no norte da Itália.
- roMilano se află în nordul Italiei.
- caMilà és al nord d'Itàlia.
- enMilan is in the north of Italy.
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