"to enter, to go in" in seven languages
Meaningto enter, to go in
Spanish
entrar
/enˈtɾaɾ/
inherited
Spain says entrar en; Latin America often entrar a.
French
entrer
/ɑ̃tʁe/
inherited
French goes 'into': entrer dans.
Italian
entrare
/enˈtrare/
inherited
Portuguese
entrar
/ẽˈtɾah/
inherited
Romanian
intra
/inˈtra/
inherited
Catalan
entrar
/ənˈtɾa/
inherited
English
enter
/ˈɛntɚ/
from Latin/French · Old French entrer
English → Italianto enter, to go inentrareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
INTRĀRE‘to go in’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A three-way cognate: Latin IN- became en- everywhere, and French nasalized it. English enter is the French word borrowed whole.
English relatives: enter, entrance, entry (via French)
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In a sentence
- es¿Puedo entrar?
- frJe peux entrer ?
- itPosso entrare?
- ptPosso entrar?
- roPot să intru?
- caPuc entrar?
- enMay I come in?