"staff, personnel" in seven languages
Meaningstaff, personnel
Spanish
personal
/peɾsoˈnal/
masc.learned
French
personnel
/pɛʁsɔnɛl/
masc.learned
Italian
personale
/persoˈnale/
masc.learned
Portuguese
equipe
/eˈkipi/
fem.other source · French équipe (from Old French eschiper, of Germanic origin)
Romanian
personal
/persoˈnal/
neut.borrowed · French personnel
Catalan
personal
/pərsuˈnal/
masc.learned
English
staff
/stæf/
native English · Old English stæf 'stick'
A staff was first a stick of office; English personnel is the French word.
English → Italianstaff, personnelpersonaleNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: personnel, personal, person.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PERSŌNĀLEM (Late Latin)‘personal, of a person’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The sisters use the adjective 'personal' as a noun for the people who work somewhere. Careful: Spanish personal also just means 'personal', and context decides.
English relatives: personnel, personal, person
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In a sentence
- esEl personal del hotel es muy amable.
- frLe personnel de l'hôtel est très aimable.
- itIl personale dell'albergo è molto gentile.
- ptA equipe do hotel é muito simpática.
- roPersonalul hotelului e foarte amabil.
- caEl personal de l'hotel és molt amable.
- enThe hotel staff is very friendly.
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