"sin" in seven languages
Meaningsin
Spanish
pecado
/peˈkado/
masc.inherited
French
péché
/peʃe/
masc.inherited
Italian
peccato
/pekˈkato/
masc.inherited
Che peccato! means 'What a pity!'
Portuguese
pecado
/peˈkadu/
masc.inherited
Romanian
păcat
/pəˈkat/
neut.inherited
Also 'pity': ce păcat! 'what a shame!'
Catalan
pecat
/pəˈkat/
masc.inherited
English
sin
/sɪn/
native English · Old English synn
English → ItaliansinpeccatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: impeccable, peccadillo.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PECCĀTUM‘a fault, error (PECCĀRE 'to stumble, err')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish simplified the double c and softened t to d (pecado); French turned -ca- into ché and lost the t (péché); Italian kept both (peccato). Impeccable is 'unable to sin'.
English relatives: impeccable, peccadillo
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esMentir es pecado.
- frMentir est un péché.
- itMentire è peccato.
- ptMentir é pecado.
- roMinciuna e păcat.
- caMentir és pecat.
- enLying is a sin.
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