"session" in seven languages
Meaningsession
Spanish
/seˈsjon/
fem.learned
French
/seɑ̃s/
fem.other source · French séant, participle of seoir 'to sit' (Latin SEDĒRE)
Session exists too, for a parliament's or an exam's period.
Italian
/sesˈsjone/
fem.learned
Portuguese
/seˈsɐ̃w/
fem.learned
Romanian
/ʃeˈdintsə/
fem.other source · ședea 'to sit' (Latin SEDĒRE) + -ință, much like French séance
Sesiune is mostly the exam session or a parliamentary session.
Catalan
/səsiˈo/
fem.learned
English
/ˈsɛʃən/
from Latin/French · Old French session / Latin SESSIŌNEM
The Latin ancestor
SESSIŌNEM‘a sitting (from SEDĒRE 'to sit')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A session is a 'sitting'. Spanish and Italian took the learned Latin noun; everyday French uses séance, built on its own heir of SEDĒRE, and English borrowed it for a spiritualist sitting.
English relatives: sit, sedentary, preside, president
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In a sentence
- esLa sesión de entrenamiento dura una hora.
- frLa séance d'entraînement dure une heure.
- itLa sessione di allenamento dura un'ora.
- ptA sessão de treino dura uma hora.
- roȘedința de antrenament durează o oră.
- caLa sessió d'entrenament dura una hora.
- enThe training session lasts an hour.
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