"variety" in seven languages
Meaningvariety
Spanish
variedad
/baɾjeˈdad/
fem.learned
French
variété
/vaʁjete/
fem.learned
Les variétés is also light-entertainment TV and pop music.
Italian
varietà
/varjeˈta/
fem.learned
Il varietà (masculine) is a variety show.
Portuguese
variedade
/vaɾjeˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
varietate
/varieˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
varietat
/bəɾiəˈtat/
fem.learned
English
variety
/vəˈɹaɪəti/
from Latin/French · Old French varieté, from Latin
English → ItalianvarietyvarietàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
VARIETĀTEM‘diversity’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A clean showcase of -TĀTEM: Spanish -dad, French -té, Italian -tà, English -ty, all on the same learned stem.
English relatives: vary, various, variation
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In a sentence
- esHay una gran variedad de platos.
- frIl y a une grande variété de plats.
- itC'è una grande varietà di piatti.
- ptHá uma grande variedade de pratos.
- roExistă o mare varietate de mâncăruri.
- caHi ha una gran varietat de plats.
- enThere is a great variety of dishes.
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