"to identify" in seven languages
Meaningto identify
Spanish
identificar
/identifiˈkaɾ/
learned
French
identifier
/idɑ̃tifje/
learned
Italian
identificare
/identifiˈkare/
learned
Portuguese
identificar
/idẽtʃifiˈkah/
learned
Romanian
identifica
/identifiˈka/
learned
Catalan
identificar
/idəntifiˈka/
learned
English
identify
/aɪˈdɛntɪfaɪ/
from Latin/French · Medieval Latin IDENTIFICĀRE, via French identifier
English → Italianto identifyidentificareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IDENTIFICĀRE‘to make the same’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A scholars' coinage on IDEM 'the same': to identify someone is to say who they are the same as. No spoken Latin behind it, so all four look alike.
English relatives: identity, identical, ID
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In a sentence
- esLa policía identificó al sospechoso.
- frLa police a identifié le suspect.
- itLa polizia ha identificato il sospettato.
- ptA polícia identificou o suspeito.
- roPoliția l-a identificat pe suspect.
- caLa policia va identificar el sospitós.
- enThe police identified the suspect.
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