"plastic (the material)" in seven languages
Meaningplastic (the material)
Spanish
plástico
/ˈplastiko/
masc.learned
French
plastique
/plastik/
masc.learned
Italian
plastica
/ˈplastika/
fem.learned
Feminine in Italian: la plastica.
Portuguese
plástico
/ˈplastʃiku/
masc.learned
Romanian
plastic
/ˈplastik/
neut.borrowed · French plastique
Catalan
plàstic
/ˈplastik/
masc.learned
English
plastic
/ˈplæstɪk/
from Latin/French · Latin PLASTICUS, from Greek plastikós
English → Italianplastic (the material)plasticaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PLASTICUM (Greek plastikós)‘fit for moulding’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Greek plássein 'to mould': plastic meant 'mouldable' (plastic arts, plastic surgery) long before it named the material.
English relatives: plaster, plasticity
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In a sentence
- esEsta botella es de plástico.
- frCette bouteille est en plastique.
- itQuesta bottiglia è di plastica.
- ptEsta garrafa é de plástico.
- roSticla asta e din plastic.
- caAquesta ampolla és de plàstic.
- enThis bottle is made of plastic.
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