"permanent" in seven languages
Meaningpermanent
Spanish
permanente
/peɾmaˈnente/
learned
French
permanent
/pɛʁmanɑ̃/
learned
fem.: permanente
Italian
permanente
/permaˈnɛnte/
learned
Portuguese
permanente
/pehmaˈnẽtʃi/
learned
Romanian
permanent
/permaˈnent/
learned
Catalan
permanent
/pəɾməˈnen/
learned
English
permanent
/ˈpɝmənənt/
from Latin/French · Old French permanent, from Latin
English → ItalianpermanentpermanenteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PERMANENTEM‘remaining (from PERMANĒRE 'to stay to the end')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
As a noun, una permanente / une permanente is a perm, the hairstyle 'that stays'.
English relatives: remain, mansion, manor
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In a sentence
- esEs una solución permanente.
- frC'est une solution permanente.
- itÈ una soluzione permanente.
- ptÉ uma solução permanente.
- roE o soluție permanentă.
- caÉs una solució permanent.
- enIt's a permanent solution.
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