"technology" in seven languages
Meaningtechnology
Spanish
tecnología
/teknoloˈxia/
fem.learned
French
technologie
/tɛknɔlɔʒi/
fem.learned
Italian
tecnologia
/teknoloˈdʒia/
fem.learned
Portuguese
tecnologia
/teknoloˈʒiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
tehnologie
/tehnoloˈdʒie/
fem.borrowed · French technologie
Catalan
tecnologia
/təknuluˈʒiə/
fem.learned
English
technology
/tɛkˈnɑlədʒi/
from Latin/French · Greek tekhnologíā, via Modern Latin
English → ItaliantechnologytecnologiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Greek tekhnologíā‘systematic treatment of an art (tékhnē 'craft' + -logíā)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A modern learned coinage from Greek. French and English keep the Greek ch in spelling; Spanish and Italian simplified it to c, and stress the final -ía / -ìa.
English relatives: technique, technical, technician
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In a sentence
- esLa tecnología cambia muy deprisa.
- frLa technologie évolue très vite.
- itLa tecnologia cambia molto in fretta.
- ptA tecnologia muda muito rápido.
- roTehnologia se schimbă foarte repede.
- caLa tecnologia canvia molt de pressa.
- enTechnology changes very fast.