"production" in seven languages
Meaningproduction
Spanish
producción
/pɾodukˈθjon/
fem.learned
French
production
/pʁɔdyksjɔ̃/
fem.learned
Italian
produzione
/produtˈtsjone/
fem.learned
Portuguese
produção
/pɾoduˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
producție
/proˈduktsie/
fem.learned
Catalan
producció
/pɾudukˈsjo/
fem.learned
English
production
/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
from Latin/French · Old French production, Latin PRŌDUCTIŌ
English → ItalianproductionproduzioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PRŌDUCTIŌNEM‘a leading forth; lengthening’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish keeps both halves of -cción (a k, then θ). Italian merges the ct and the ending into a single long ts: produzione.
English relatives: produce, product, productive
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In a sentence
- esLa producción se ha duplicado este año.
- frLa production a doublé cette année.
- itLa produzione è raddoppiata quest'anno.
- ptA produção dobrou este ano.
- roProducția s-a dublat anul acesta.
- caLa producció s'ha duplicat aquest any.
- enProduction has doubled this year.
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