"resistance" in seven languages
Meaningresistance
Spanish
resistencia
/resisˈtenθja/
fem.learned
French
résistance
/ʁezistɑ̃s/
fem.learned
With a capital R, the wartime Resistance.
Italian
resistenza
/rezisˈtɛntsa/
fem.learned
La Resistenza is the Italian partisan movement of 1943–45.
Portuguese
resistência
/hezisˈtẽsjɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
rezistență
/rezisˈtentsə/
fem.learned
Catalan
resistència
/rəzisˈtɛnsiə/
fem.learned
English
resistance
/ɹɪˈzɪstəns/
from Latin/French · Old French resistance / Late Latin
English → ItalianresistanceresistenzaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
RESISTENTIAM (Late Latin)‘resistance’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
From RESISTERE 'to stand back against'. The -ENTIA ending gives -encia, -ence, -enza, just as in existence.
English relatives: resist, resistant, insist, consist
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In a sentence
- esEl plan encontró una fuerte resistencia.
- frLe projet s'est heurté à une forte résistance.
- itIl piano ha incontrato una forte resistenza.
- ptO plano enfrentou uma forte resistência.
- roPlanul a întâmpinat o rezistență puternică.
- caEl pla va topar amb una forta resistència.
- enThe plan met strong resistance.
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