"strange" in seven languages
Meaningstrange
Spanish
extraño
/eksˈtɾaɲo/
inherited
Raro is the everyday synonym.
French
étrange
/etʁɑ̃ʒ/
inherited
Italian
strano
/ˈstrano/
inherited
The learned twin estraneo means 'extraneous, outsider'.
Portuguese
estranho
/isˈtɾɐ̃ɲu/
inherited
Romanian
ciudat
/tʃuˈdat/
other source · Slavic (cf. Old Church Slavonic čudo 'wonder')
Catalan
estrany
/əsˈtraɲ/
inherited
English
strange
/stɹeɪndʒ/
from Latin/French · Old French estrange
English → ItalianstrangestranoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
EXTRĀNEUM‘from outside, foreign’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
EXTRĀNEUS was 'from outside'. Spanish turned the -NE- into ñ, Italian dropped the opening vowel, and English strange came through Old French; extraneous is the same word taken straight from Latin.
English relatives: stranger, estranged, extraneous
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In a sentence
- esOí un ruido extraño.
- frJ'ai entendu un bruit étrange.
- itHo sentito un rumore strano.
- ptOuvi um barulho estranho.
- roAm auzit un zgomot ciudat.
- caVaig sentir un soroll estrany.
- enI heard a strange noise.
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