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"to commit (a crime, a mistake)" in seven languages

Meaningto commit (a crime, a mistake)

Spanish

cometer

/komeˈteɾ/

inherited

French

commettre

/kɔmɛtʁ/

inherited

Conjugated like mettre: il a commis.

Italian

commettere

/komˈmettere/

inherited

Past participle commesso, like messo.

Portuguese

cometer

/komeˈteh/

inherited

Romanian

comite

/koˈmite/

learned

Formal; with an ordinary mistake Romanian usually just says face o greșeală.

Catalan

cometre

/kuˈmɛtɾə/

inherited

English

commit

/kəˈmɪt/

from Latin/French · Latin COMMITTERE

English → Italianto commit (a crime, a mistake)commettereCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

COMMITTERE‘to bring together; to entrust; to perpetrate’

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

The story

In the sisters the verb commits only crimes and mistakes. To commit yourself to something is comprometerse, s'engager, impegnarsi.

English relatives: commission, committee, commitment, mission

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In a sentence

  • esCometió un error grave.
  • frIl a commis une grave erreur.
  • itHa commesso un errore grave.
  • ptEle cometeu um erro grave.
  • roA comis o greșeală gravă.
  • caVa cometre un error greu.
  • enHe committed a serious mistake.

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