"therapy" in seven languages
Meaningtherapy
Spanish
terapia
/teˈɾapja/
fem.learned
French
thérapie
/teʁapi/
fem.learned
Italian
terapia
/teraˈpia/
fem.learned
Portuguese
terapia
/teɾaˈpiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
terapie
/teraˈpie/
fem.learned
Catalan
teràpia
/təˈɾapiə/
fem.learned
English
therapy
/ˈθɛɹəpi/
from Latin/French · Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeía
English → ItaliantherapyterapiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Greek therapeía‘service, care, medical treatment’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Greek therapeía first meant 'service, care'. Same spelling, different stress: Spanish teRApia, Italian teraPIa.
English relatives: therapist, therapeutic
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In a sentence
- esEstá en terapia.
- frIl suit une thérapie.
- itÈ in terapia.
- ptEle está fazendo terapia.
- roFace terapie.
- caFa teràpia.
- enHe's in therapy.