"to promise" in seven languages
Meaningto promise
Spanish
prometer
/pɾomeˈteɾ/
inherited
French
promettre
/pʁɔmɛtʁ/
inherited
Italian
promettere
/proˈmettere/
inherited
Portuguese
prometer
/pɾomeˈteh/
inherited
Romanian
promite
/proˈmite/
learned
Catalan
prometre
/pɾuˈmɛtɾə/
inherited
English
promise
/ˈpɹɑməs/
from Latin/French · Latin PRŌMISSUM 'a thing promised'
English → Italianto promisepromettereCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PRŌMITTERE‘to send forward, to promise’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
To promise is to 'put forward' your word: the verb is meter, mettre, mettere 'to put' with PRŌ- in front, and conjugates exactly like it.
English relatives: promise, emit, admit, permit
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In a sentence
- esTe prometo que vendré.
- frJe te promets que je viendrai.
- itTi prometto che verrò.
- ptPrometo que eu venho.
- roÎți promit că vin.
- caEt prometo que vindré.
- enI promise I'll come.
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