"nuclear" in seven languages
Meaningnuclear
Spanish
nuclear
/nukleˈaɾ/
learned
French
nucléaire
/nykleɛʁ/
learned
Italian
nucleare
/nukleˈare/
learned
Portuguese
nuclear
/nukleˈah/
learned
Romanian
nuclear
/nukleˈar/
learned
Catalan
nuclear
/nukləˈaɾ/
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English
nuclear
/ˈnukliɚ/
from Latin/French · Latin NUCLEUS + -ar
English → ItaliannuclearnucleareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
NUCLEUM‘kernel, inner nut’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
NUCLEUS was the kernel of a nut (NUX), a modern scientific coinage applied to the atom. Spanish spells it like English; French writes -éaire and fronts u to [y].
English relatives: nucleus, nucleolus
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In a sentence
- esuna central nuclear
- frune centrale nucléaire
- ituna centrale nucleare
- ptuma usina nuclear
- roo centrală nucleară
- cauna central nuclear
- ena nuclear power station
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