"thirteen" in seven languages
Meaningthirteen
Spanish
trece
/ˈtɾeθe/
inherited
French
treize
/tʁɛz/
inherited
Italian
tredici
/ˈtreditʃi/
inherited
Portuguese
treze
/ˈtɾezi/
inherited
Romanian
treisprezece
/ˈtrejsprezetʃe/
other source · Romanian compound trei spre zece 'three upon ten'
Catalan
tretze
/ˈtɾɛdzə/
inherited
English
thirteen
/θɝˈtin/
Indo-European kin · PIE *tréyes + *déḱm̥
English → ItalianthirteentrediciDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche).What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TREDECIM‘thirteen’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italy's unlucky number is traditionally 17, not 13 — in many Italian contexts 13 is even lucky (fare tredici, a jackpot).
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