"philosophy" in seven languages
Meaningphilosophy
Spanish
filosofía
/filosoˈfia/
fem.learned
French
philosophie
/filozɔfi/
fem.learned
Italian
filosofia
/filozoˈfia/
fem.learned
Portuguese
filosofia
/filozoˈfiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
filozofie
/filozoˈfie/
fem.learned
Catalan
filosofia
/filuzuˈfiə/
fem.learned
English
philosophy
/fəˈlɑsəfi/
from Latin/French · Old French filosofie, from Latin
English → ItalianphilosophyfilosofiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PHILOSOPHIAM‘love of wisdom (Greek philosophía)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish and Italian spell Greek ph as f; French and English keep the ph. The same switch decodes física / physique / fisica.
English relatives: philosopher, philosophical, sophisticated
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In a sentence
- esEstudia filosofía en la universidad.
- frElle étudie la philosophie à l'université.
- itStudia filosofia all'università.
- ptEla estuda filosofia na universidade.
- roStudiază filozofia la universitate.
- caEstudia filosofia a la universitat.
- enShe studies philosophy at university.
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