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"producer (of films, music)" in seven languages

Meaningproducer (of films, music)

Spanish

productor

/pɾodukˈtoɾ/

masc.learned

fem.: productora

French

producteur

/pʁɔdyktœʁ/

masc.learned

fem.: productrice

Italian

produttore

/produtˈtore/

masc.learned

fem.: produttrice

Portuguese

produtor

/pɾoduˈtoh/

masc.learned

fem.: produtora

Romanian

producător

/produkəˈtor/

masc.learned

fem.: producătoare

Built in Romanian on the learned verb produce with the native agent suffix -ător.

Catalan

productor

/pɾudukˈto/

masc.learned

fem.: productora

English

producer

/pɹəˈdusɚ/

from Latin/French · produce (Latin PRŌDŪCERE) + -er

English → Italianproducer (of films, music)produttoreCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PRŌDŪCERE‘to lead forth, bring out’

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

The story

Italian assimilates the ct of the learned stem to tt (produttore), as it does in prodotto 'product'; Spanish and French keep the cluster.

English relatives: produce, product, production

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In a sentence

  • esEs productora de cine.
  • frElle est productrice de cinéma.
  • itÈ una produttrice cinematografica.
  • ptEla é produtora de cinema.
  • roEste producătoare de film.
  • caÉs productora de cinema.
  • enShe is a film producer.

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