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"to avoid" in seven languages

Meaningto avoid

Spanish

evitar

/ebiˈtaɾ/

learned

French

éviter

/evite/

learned

Italian

evitare

/eviˈtare/

learned

Portuguese

evitar

/eviˈtah/

learned

Romanian

evita

/eviˈta/

learned

Catalan

evitar

/əbiˈta/

learned

English

avoid

/əˈvɔɪd/

other source · Anglo-French avoider 'to empty out'

English → Italianto avoidevitareNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: inevitable, evitable.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

ĒVĪTĀRE‘to shun, keep away from’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

The sisters took ĒVĪTĀRE straight from written Latin; English knows it only in inevitable. English avoid is French too, but from another verb: Anglo-French avoider 'to empty out', a relative of void.

English relatives: inevitable, evitable

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In a sentence

  • esIntenta evitar el azúcar.
  • frEssaie d'éviter le sucre.
  • itCerca di evitare lo zucchero.
  • ptTente evitar o açúcar.
  • roÎncearcă să eviți zahărul.
  • caIntenta evitar el sucre.
  • enTry to avoid sugar.

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