"pure" in seven languages
Meaningpure
Spanish
puro
/ˈpuɾo/
inherited
As a noun, un puro is a cigar.
French
pur
/pyʁ/
inherited
Italian
puro
/ˈpuro/
inherited
Portuguese
puro
/ˈpuɾu/
inherited
Romanian
pur
/pur/
learned
Of air or water, everyday Romanian often says curat 'clean'.
Catalan
pur
/puɾ/
inherited
English
pure
/pjʊɹ/
from Latin/French · Old French pur
English → ItalianpurepuroCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PŪRUM‘clean, unmixed’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Long Ū stays u in Spanish and Italian but fronts to [y] in French (pur), just as MŪRUM gave muro / mur / muro.
English relatives: purify, purge, puritan
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In a sentence
- esAquí el aire es muy puro.
- frIci, l'air est très pur.
- itQui l'aria è purissima.
- ptO ar aqui é muito puro.
- roAici aerul este foarte pur.
- caAquí l'aire és molt pur.
- enThe air here is very pure.
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