"violent" in seven languages
Meaningviolent
Spanish
violento
/bjoˈlento/
learned
French
violent
/vjɔlɑ̃/
learned
Italian
violento
/vjoˈlɛnto/
learned
Portuguese
violento
/vioˈlẽtu/
learned
Romanian
violent
/vioˈlent/
learned
Catalan
violent
/biuˈlen/
learned
English
violent
/ˈvaɪələnt/
from Latin/French · Old French violent, from Latin VIOLENTUS
English → ItalianviolentviolentoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
VIOLENTUM‘forceful, impetuous’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish writes v but says b, as in every v-word. Spanish violento also means 'awkward, embarrassing': una situación violenta.
English relatives: violence, violate
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In a sentence
- esFue una tormenta violenta.
- frC'était une tempête violente.
- itÈ stata una tempesta violenta.
- ptFoi uma tempestade violenta.
- roA fost o furtună violentă.
- caVa ser una tempesta violenta.
- enIt was a violent storm.
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