"to control" in seven languages
Meaningto control
Spanish
/kontɾoˈlaɾ/
borrowed · French contrôler
French
/kɔ̃tʁole/
inherited
Often means 'to check': le contrôle des billets is a ticket inspection.
Italian
/kontrolˈlare/
borrowed · French contrôler
Also, and very often, 'to check'.
Portuguese
/kõtɾoˈlah/
borrowed · French contrôler
Romanian
/kontroˈla/
borrowed · French contrôler
Catalan
/kuntɾuˈla/
borrowed · French contrôler
English
/kənˈtɹoʊl/
from Latin/French · Anglo-French contreroller
The ancestor
Old French contrerolle‘counter-roll, a duplicate register’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A clerk's word: the contre-rôle was a second register kept to check the first (Latin CONTRĀ + ROTULUM). French spread it to its sisters and to English.
English relatives: roll, role, contrary
Learn it
In a sentence
- esNo puede controlar a su perro.
- frElle n'arrive pas à contrôler son chien.
- itNon riesce a controllare il suo cane.
- ptEla não consegue controlar o cachorro.
- roNu își poate controla câinele.
- caNo pot controlar el seu gos.
- enShe can't control her dog.
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