"province" in seven languages
Meaningprovince
Spanish
provincia
/pɾoˈbinθja/
fem.learned
French
province
/pʁɔvɛ̃s/
fem.learned
La province also means 'anywhere outside Paris'.
Italian
provincia
/proˈvintʃa/
fem.learned
Portuguese
província
/pɾoˈvĩsiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
provincie
/proˈvintʃie/
fem.learned
Catalan
província
/pɾuˈbinsiə/
fem.learned
English
province
/ˈpɹɑvɪns/
from Latin/French · Old French province
English → ItalianprovinceprovinciaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PRŌVINCIAM‘a magistrate's charge; a conquered territory’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Rome's first province beyond the Alps is still called Provence. The c before i shows the soft-c split: Spanish θ, French s, Italian tʃ.
English relatives: provincial, Provence
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In a sentence
- esCreció en una pequeña provincia del norte.
- frElle a grandi dans une petite province du nord.
- itÈ cresciuta in una piccola provincia del nord.
- ptEla cresceu em uma pequena província do norte.
- roA crescut într-o mică provincie din nord.
- caVa créixer en una petita província del nord.
- enShe grew up in a small province in the north.
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