"sport" in seven languages
Meaningsport
Spanish
/deˈpoɾte/
masc.other source · Old Spanish deporte 'pastime', from deportarse 'to amuse oneself' (Latin DĒPORTĀRE)
French
/spɔʁ/
masc.borrowed · English sport
Italian
/spɔrt/
masc.borrowed · English sport
Invariable: gli sport.
Portuguese
/isˈpɔhtʃi/
masc.borrowed · English sport
European Portuguese says desporto.
Romanian
/sport/
neut.borrowed · English sport
Catalan
/əsˈpɔɾt/
masc.borrowed · English sport
English
/spɔɹt/
from Latin/French · English, short for disport (Old French desport 'amusement')
The ancestor
English sport‘pastime, game (short for disport)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
English clipped disport, an Old French word for 'amusement', to sport, and French and Italian borrowed it back. Spanish kept its own medieval word for a pastime, deporte, built on the same idea of 'carrying oneself away'.
English relatives: disport
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In a sentence
- es¿Cuál es tu deporte favorito?
- frQuel est ton sport préféré ?
- itQual è il tuo sport preferito?
- ptQual é o seu esporte favorito?
- roCare e sportul tău preferat?
- caQuin és el teu esport preferit?
- enWhat is your favourite sport?
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