"to determine" in seven languages
Meaningto determine
Spanish
determinar
/deteɾmiˈnaɾ/
learned
French
déterminer
/detɛʁmine/
learned
Italian
determinare
/determiˈnare/
learned
Portuguese
determinar
/detehmiˈnah/
learned
Romanian
determina
/determiˈna/
learned
Catalan
determinar
/dətəɾmiˈna/
learned
English
determine
/dɪˈtɝmɪn/
from Latin/French · Old French determiner
English → Italianto determinedeterminareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
DĒTERMINĀRE‘to set limits to’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A TERMINUS was a boundary stone: to determine something is to fix its limits. The same learned verb everywhere.
English relatives: term, terminal, terminate, determination
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In a sentence
- esLas pruebas determinarán la causa.
- frLes analyses détermineront la cause.
- itLe analisi determineranno la causa.
- ptOs exames vão determinar a causa.
- roTestele vor determina cauza.
- caLes proves determinaran la causa.
- enThe tests will determine the cause.
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