"zone" in seven languages
Meaningzone
Spanish
zona
/ˈθona/
fem.learned
French
zone
/zon/
fem.learned
Italian
zona
/ˈdzɔna/
fem.learned
Portuguese
zona
/ˈzonɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
zonă
/ˈzonə/
fem.learned
Catalan
zona
/ˈzonə/
fem.learned
English
zone
/zoʊn/
from Latin/French · Latin ZŌNAM, from Greek zṓnē
English → ItalianzonezonaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
ZŌNAM‘belt, girdle (from Greek zṓnē)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A zone was a belt, and the Greeks used it for the belts of climate around the globe. One spelling, three sounds: Spanish θ, French z, Italian dz.
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In a sentence
- esEsta es una zona peatonal.
- frC'est une zone piétonne.
- itQuesta è una zona pedonale.
- ptEsta é uma zona de pedestres.
- roAceasta este o zonă pietonală.
- caAquesta és una zona de vianants.
- enThis is a pedestrian zone.
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