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"strategy" in seven languages

Meaningstrategy

Spanish

estrategia

/estɾaˈtexja/

fem.learned

French

stratégie

/stʁateʒi/

fem.learned

Italian

strategia

/strateˈdʒia/

fem.learned

Portuguese

estratégia

/istɾaˈtɛʒjɐ/

fem.learned

Romanian

strategie

/strateˈdʒie/

fem.learned

Catalan

estratègia

/əstɾəˈtɛʒiə/

fem.learned

English

strategy

/ˈstɹætədʒi/

from Latin/French · French stratégie, from Greek

English → ItalianstrategystrategiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The ancestor

Greek stratēgía‘generalship’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A stratēgós was an army leader. Spanish adds its usual e- before s + consonant; Italian moves the stress onto the i: strategia.

English relatives: strategic

Sound laws at work

S + consonant at the start of a word

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In a sentence

  • esNecesitamos una nueva estrategia.
  • frIl nous faut une nouvelle stratégie.
  • itCi serve una nuova strategia.
  • ptPrecisamos de uma nova estratégia.
  • roAvem nevoie de o nouă strategie.
  • caEns cal una nova estratègia.
  • enWe need a new strategy.

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