"teenager, adolescent" in seven languages
Meaningteenager, adolescent
Spanish
adolescente
/adolesˈθente/
masc.learned
French
adolescent
/adɔlesɑ̃/
masc.learned
Usually shortened to ado.
Italian
adolescente
/adoleʃˈʃɛnte/
masc.learned
Portuguese
adolescente
/adoleˈsẽtʃi/
masc.learned
Romanian
adolescent
/adolesˈtʃent/
masc.learned
Catalan
adolescent
/əduləˈsen/
masc.learned
English
teenager
/ˈtineɪdʒɚ/
native English · English -teen + age
English → Italianteenager, adolescentadolescenteNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: adolescent, adult.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ADOLĒSCENTEM‘growing up’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Learned in all three, and a neat drill for the soft c after s: Spanish sθ, French s, Italian ʃʃ.
English relatives: adolescent, adult
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esMi hijo es adolescente.
- frMon fils est adolescent.
- itMio figlio è un adolescente.
- ptMeu filho é adolescente.
- roFiul meu e adolescent.
- caEl meu fill és adolescent.
- enMy son is a teenager.
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