"society" in seven languages
Meaningsociety
Spanish
sociedad
/soθjeˈdad/
fem.learned
French
société
/sɔsjete/
fem.learned
Also a company: une société anonyme (SA).
Italian
società
/sotʃeˈta/
fem.learned
plural: società
Portuguese
sociedade
/sosjeˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
societate
/sotʃjeˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
societat
/susiəˈtat/
fem.learned
English
society
/səˈsaɪəti/
from Latin/French · Old French société
English → ItaliansocietysocietàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SOCIETĀTEM‘partnership, alliance (SOCIUS 'ally')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A societas was a business partnership before it was the whole social world — French société still means 'company'.
English relatives: society, social, associate