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"unit" in seven languages

Meaningunit

Spanish

unidad

/uniˈdad/

fem.learned

French

unité

/ynite/

fem.learned

Italian

unità

/uniˈta/

fem.learned

Portuguese

unidade

/uniˈdadʒi/

fem.learned

Romanian

unitate

/uniˈtate/

fem.learned

Catalan

unitat

/uniˈtat/

fem.learned

English

unit

/ˈjunɪt/

from Latin/French · shortened from English unity (Latin ŪNITĀTEM)

English → ItalianunitunitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

ŪNITĀTEM‘oneness (from ŪNUS 'one')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Each sister has one word for both 'unit' and 'unity'; English split them by clipping unity to unit.

English relatives: unity, unite, union

Sound laws at work

-TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà

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In a sentence

  • esEl metro es una unidad de longitud.
  • frLe mètre est une unité de longueur.
  • itIl metro è un'unità di lunghezza.
  • ptO metro é uma unidade de comprimento.
  • roMetrul este o unitate de lungime.
  • caEl metre és una unitat de longitud.
  • enThe metre is a unit of length.

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