"to escape" in seven languages
Meaningto escape
Spanish
escapar(se)
/eskaˈpaɾ/
inherited
French
s'échapper
/seʃape/
inherited
Italian
scappare
/skapˈpare/
inherited
Portuguese
escapar
/iskaˈpah/
inherited
Romanian
scăpa
/skəˈpa/
inherited
Evada, from French s'évader, is the word for a prison break.
Catalan
escapar-se
/əskəˈpasə/
inherited
English
escape
/ɪˈskeɪp/
from Latin/French · Old North French escaper
English → Italianto escapescappareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
*EXCAPPĀRE‘to slip out of one's cape (CAPPA)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spoken Latin pictured escaping as slipping out of one's cape. French turned ca into cha (échapper); Italian dropped the initial e- (scappare). English escape came from the northern French form, which kept the k.
English relatives: cape, cap
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esEl preso se escapó durante la noche.
- frLe prisonnier s'est échappé pendant la nuit.
- itIl prigioniero è scappato durante la notte.
- ptO preso escapou durante a noite.
- roDeținutul a scăpat în timpul nopții.
- caEl pres es va escapar durant la nit.
- enThe prisoner escaped during the night.
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