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"wrong, incorrect" in seven languages

Meaningwrong, incorrect

Spanish

incorrecto

/inkoˈrekto/

other source · Latin INCORRECTUM (learned)

Also está mal: la respuesta está mal.

French

faux

/fo/

inherited

fem.: fausse

Italian

sbagliato

/zbaʎˈʎato/

other source · Italian sbagliare 'to make a mistake' (origin uncertain)

Portuguese

errado

/eˈhadu/

other source · Portuguese errar 'to err', from Latin ERRĀRE

Romanian

greșit

/ɡreˈʃit/

other source · Romanian greși 'to err', from Old Church Slavonic grěšiti 'to sin'

Catalan

incorrecte

/inkuˈrɛktə/

other source · Latin INCORRECTUM (learned)

English

wrong

/ɹɔŋ/

other source · Late Old English wrang, from Old Norse

English → Italianwrong, incorrectsbagliatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: false, falsify.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

FALSUM‘false, deceived’

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

The story

French faux is FALSUM with its l turned to u; Spanish and Italian falso mean 'fake'. For a person, all three switch: estás equivocado, tu as tort, hai torto.

English relatives: false, falsify

Sound laws at work

L before a consonant becomes u

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In a sentence

  • esLa respuesta es incorrecta.
  • frLa réponse est fausse.
  • itLa risposta è sbagliata.
  • ptA resposta está errada.
  • roRăspunsul e greșit.
  • caLa resposta és incorrecta.
  • enThe answer is wrong.

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