"rural" in seven languages
Meaningrural
Spanish
rural
/ruˈɾal/
learned
French
rural
/ʁyʁal/
learned
plural: ruraux
fem.: rurale
Italian
rurale
/ruˈrale/
learned
Portuguese
rural
/huˈɾaw/
learned
Romanian
rural
/ruˈral/
learned
Catalan
rural
/ruˈɾal/
learned
English
rural
/ˈɹʊɹəl/
from Latin/French · Old French rural, from Late Latin
English → ItalianruralruraleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
RŪRĀLEM‘of the countryside’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
From RŪS 'the countryside'; rustic comes from the same noun. French shows its Ū as [y], even in a learned word.
English relatives: rustic
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In a sentence
- esViven en una zona rural.
- frIls habitent dans une zone rurale.
- itVivono in una zona rurale.
- ptEles moram numa área rural.
- roLocuiesc într-o zonă rurală.
- caViuen en una zona rural.
- enThey live in a rural area.
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