"stress (mental strain)" in seven languages
Meaningstress (mental strain)
Spanish
estrés
/esˈtɾes/
masc.borrowed · English stress
French
stress
/stʁɛs/
masc.borrowed · English stress
Italian
stress
/strɛs/
masc.borrowed · English stress
Portuguese
estresse
/isˈtɾɛsi/
masc.borrowed · English stress
European Portuguese writes stress.
Romanian
stres
/stres/
neut.borrowed · English stress
Catalan
estrès
/əsˈtɾɛs/
masc.borrowed · English stress
English
stress
/stɹɛs/
from Latin/French · English, partly short for distress
English → Italianstress (mental strain)stressCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
English stress‘pressure, strain’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A modern English loan everywhere. Spanish cannot begin a word with s + consonant, so it put an e in front, estrés, the same reflex that gave escuela and estrella.
English relatives: distress
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In a sentence
- esLos exámenes producen mucho estrés.
- frLes examens causent beaucoup de stress.
- itGli esami causano molto stress.
- ptAs provas causam muito estresse.
- roExamenele provoacă mult stres.
- caEls exàmens provoquen molt d'estrès.
- enExams cause a lot of stress.
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