"organization" in seven languages
Meaningorganization
Spanish
organización
/oɾganiθaˈθjon/
fem.learned
French
organisation
/ɔʁganizasjɔ̃/
fem.learned
Italian
organizzazione
/organiddzatˈtsjone/
fem.learned
Portuguese
organização
/ohɡanizaˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
organizație
/orɡaniˈzatsje/
fem.learned
Catalan
organització
/uɾɡənidzəˈsjo/
fem.learned
English
organization
/ɔɹgənəˈzeɪʃən/
from Latin/French · organize (Medieval Latin, French) + -ation
English → ItalianorganizationorganizzazioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ORGANUM‘instrument, tool (Greek organon)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
An organization works like a body whose organs (Greek organon 'tool') each do a job. French writes -s- (organisation), as British English often does.
English relatives: organ, organize, organic
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In a sentence
- esTrabaja para una organización internacional.
- frElle travaille pour une organisation internationale.
- itLavora per un'organizzazione internazionale.
- ptEla trabalha para uma organização internacional.
- roLucrează pentru o organizație internațională.
- caTreballa per a una organització internacional.
- enShe works for an international organization.
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