"science" in seven languages
Meaningscience
Spanish
ciencia
/ˈθjenθja/
fem.learned
French
science
/sjɑ̃s/
fem.learned
Italian
scienza
/ˈʃɛntsa/
fem.learned
Portuguese
ciência
/siˈẽsjɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
știință
/ʃtiˈintsə/
fem.other source · Romanian ști 'to know' (Latin SCĪRE) + -ință
Built at home on the inherited verb ști, where the sisters borrowed SCIENTIA from books.
Catalan
ciència
/siˈɛnsiə/
fem.learned
English
science
/ˈsaɪəns/
from Latin/French · Old French science
English → ItaliansciencescienzaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SCIENTIAM‘knowledge (SCĪRE 'to know')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Three readings of SCI-: Spanish θ (dropping the s in writing), French s, Italian ʃ. The soft c before e/i is the whole story.
English relatives: science, conscience, conscious
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In a sentence
- esMe gustan las ciencias.
- frJ'aime les sciences.
- itMi piacciono le scienze.
- ptGosto de ciências.
- roÎmi plac științele.
- caM'agraden les ciències.
- enI like science.
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