"worldwide, global" in seven languages
Meaningworldwide, global
Spanish
mundial
/munˈdjal/
learned
French
mondial
/mɔ̃djal/
learned
Plural mondiaux.
Italian
mondiale
/monˈdjale/
learned
Portuguese
mundial
/mũdʒiˈaw/
learned
Romanian
mondial
/mondiˈal/
borrowed · French mondial
Catalan
mundial
/mundiˈal/
learned
English
worldwide
/ˈwɝldwaɪd/
native English · English world + wide
English → Italianworldwide, globalmondialeNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: mundane.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
MUNDIĀLEM‘of the world (MUNDUS)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The football World Cup is simply 'the worldwide one': el Mundial, le Mondial, i Mondiali. English kept its own compound and borrowed only mundane, which came to mean 'everyday'.
English relatives: mundane
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In a sentence
- esEs un problema mundial.
- frC'est un problème mondial.
- itÈ un problema mondiale.
- ptÉ um problema mundial.
- roEste o problemă mondială.
- caÉs un problema mundial.
- enIt is a worldwide problem.
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