"to combine" in seven languages
Meaningto combine
Spanish
combinar
/kombiˈnaɾ/
learned
French
combiner
/kɔ̃bine/
learned
Italian
combinare
/kombiˈnare/
learned
Colloquially combinarne una is 'to get up to mischief'.
Portuguese
combinar
/kõbiˈnah/
learned
Combinar is also everyday 'to agree, arrange': combinado! 'deal!'.
Romanian
combina
/kombiˈna/
learned
Catalan
combinar
/kumbiˈna/
learned
English
combine
/kəmˈbaɪn/
from Latin/French · Late Latin COMBĪNĀRE, partly via French
English → Italianto combinecombinareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
COMBĪNĀRE‘to join two by two (BĪNĪ 'in pairs')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Combining was pairing things off, BĪNĪ 'two by two', the same root as binary. A learned verb, regular in all three.
English relatives: combination, binary
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In a sentence
- esCombina el trabajo con los estudios.
- frElle combine travail et études.
- itCombina lavoro e studio.
- ptEla combina trabalho e estudo.
- roCombină munca cu studiile.
- caCombina la feina amb els estudis.
- enShe combines work and study.
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