"scar" in seven languages
Meaningscar
Spanish
cicatriz
/θikaˈtɾiθ/
fem.learned
French
cicatrice
/sikatʁis/
fem.learned
Italian
cicatrice
/tʃikaˈtritʃe/
fem.learned
Portuguese
cicatriz
/sikaˈtɾis/
fem.learned
Romanian
cicatrice
/tʃikaˈtritʃe/
fem.borrowed · French cicatrice
Catalan
cicatriu
/sikəˈtɾiw/
fem.learned
English
scar
/skɑɹ/
other source · Old French escare (Greek eskhára)
English → ItalianscarcicatriceNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CICĀTRĪCEM‘scar’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Learned in all three, so the Latin shape survives — a handy drill for soft c, heard twice in every sister: θ, s, tʃ.