"republic" in seven languages
Meaningrepublic
Spanish
república
/reˈpublika/
fem.learned
French
république
/ʁepyblik/
fem.learned
Italian
repubblica
/reˈpubblika/
fem.learned
Portuguese
república
/heˈpublikɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
republică
/reˈpublikə/
fem.learned
Catalan
república
/rəˈpublikə/
fem.learned
English
republic
/ɹɪˈpʌblɪk/
from Latin/French · French république, from Latin
English → ItalianrepublicrepubblicaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
RĒM PŪBLICAM‘the public thing, the state’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Two Latin words fused into one: RĒS PŪBLICA, 'the people's business'. Italian doubles the b, as it often does in learned words.
English relatives: public, publish, publication
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In a sentence
- esFrancia es una república.
- frLa France est une république.
- itLa Francia è una repubblica.
- ptA França é uma república.
- roFranța este o republică.
- caFrança és una república.
- enFrance is a republic.
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