"to measure" in seven languages
Meaningto measure
Spanish
medir
/meˈdiɾ/
other source · Latin METĪRĪ 'to measure'
The noun is medida; mesura means 'restraint'.
French
mesurer
/məzyʁe/
inherited
Italian
misurare
/mizuˈrare/
inherited
Portuguese
medir
/meˈdʒih/
other source · Latin METĪRĪ 'to measure'
Romanian
măsura
/məsuˈra/
inherited
Spoken Latin had already lost the n before s: MĒNSA → masă 'table'.
Catalan
mesurar
/məzuˈɾa/
inherited
English
measure
/ˈmɛʒɚ/
from Latin/French · Old French mesurer
English → Italianto measuremisurareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
MĒNSŪRĀRE‘to measure (from MĒNSŪRA 'measure')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spoken Latin dropped the n before s, so French mesurer and Italian misurare have none. Spanish kept the older verb METĪRĪ, whose t softened to d: medir.
English relatives: measure, immense, dimension
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In a sentence
- esMide la mesa antes de comprarla.
- frMesure la table avant de l'acheter.
- itMisura il tavolo prima di comprarlo.
- ptMeça a mesa antes de comprá-la.
- roMăsoară masa înainte s-o cumperi.
- caMesura la taula abans de comprar-la.
- enMeasure the table before buying it.
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