"parliament" in seven languages

Meaningparliament

Spanish

parlamento

/paɾlaˈmento/

masc.borrowed · French parlement

French

parlement

/paʁləmɑ̃/

masc.inherited

Built in French on parler 'to speak'.

Italian

parlamento

/parlaˈmento/

masc.borrowed · French parlement

Portuguese

parlamento

/pahlaˈmẽtu/

masc.borrowed · French parlement

Romanian

parlament

/parlaˈment/

neut.borrowed · French parlement

Catalan

parlament

/pəɾləˈmen/

masc.borrowed · French parlement

English

parliament

/ˈpɑɹləmənt/

from Latin/French · Old French parlement (spelling remodelled on Medieval Latin parliamentum)

English → ItalianparliamentparlamentoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The ancestor

Old French parlement (← parler)‘a talk, a conference’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

A parliament is a 'talking': French parler gave the word, and its neighbours took it over. English parlour is the 'talking room' from the same verb.

English relatives: parley, parlour