"to suggest" in seven languages
Meaningto suggest
Spanish
sugerir
/suxeˈɾiɾ/
learned
Stem-changing: sugiero, sugieres.
French
suggérer
/sygʒeʁe/
learned
Italian
suggerire
/suddʒeˈrire/
learned
Also 'to prompt' an actor or a pupil: il suggeritore is the prompter.
Portuguese
sugerir
/suʒeˈɾih/
learned
Romanian
sugera
/sudʒeˈra/
borrowed · French suggérer
Catalan
suggerir
/suʒəˈɾi/
learned
English
suggest
/səgˈdʒɛst/
from Latin/French · Latin SUGGERERE (past participle SUGGESTUS)
English → Italianto suggestsuggerireCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SUGGERERE‘to bring up from below, supply’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
SUB 'under' + GERERE 'to carry': to suggest is to slip an idea up from underneath. All four took the Latin verb by the book, so they look nearly identical.
English relatives: suggestion, suggestive; gesture, digest (from GERERE)
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In a sentence
- es¿Qué sugieres?
- frQu'est-ce que vous suggérez ?
- itCosa suggerisci?
- ptO que você sugere?
- roCe sugerezi?
- caQuè suggereixes?
- enWhat do you suggest?
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