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| style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | el pǫnt | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | el pǫnt | ||
| style="background-color: teal;" | ponte | | style="background-color: teal;" | ponte | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" rowspan="2" | a ponte | ||
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| style="background-color: yellow;" | ponton; pod (''neut.'') | | style="background-color: yellow;" | ponton; pod (''neut.'') | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | poddighe (mannu) | | style="background-color: teal;" | poddighe (mannu) | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" | a polgada | ||
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|style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2"| blood | |style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2"| blood | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | sanguni | | style="background-color: teal;" | sanguni | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o sangue | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | sang (''masc'') | | style="background-color: teal;" | sang (''masc'') | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o lavouro | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o lavouro | ||
| style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | il lavoro | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | il lavoro | ||
| − | | | + | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | |
| + | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | ||
| + | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | ||
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| + | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | ||
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| + | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o labor | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | le labour | | style="background-color: teal;" | le labour | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | fine | | style="background-color: teal;" | fine | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o fin | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | il fine | | style="background-color: teal;" | il fine | ||
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| style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | ||
| style="background-color: teal;" | arvere | | style="background-color: teal;" | arvere | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" rowspan="2" | a árbore | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | a(l/r)bure | | style="background-color: teal;" | a(l/r)bure | ||
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| style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | | style="background-color: white;" rowspan="2" | | ||
| style="background-color: pink;" rowspan="2" | arte | | style="background-color: pink;" rowspan="2" | arte | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" rowspan="2" | a arte | ||
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| style="background-color: #FF00F1;" | las artes | | style="background-color: #FF00F1;" | las artes | ||
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| style="background-color: pink;" | costumene | | style="background-color: pink;" | costumene | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" | o costume | ||
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|style="font-weight: bold;" | origin | |style="font-weight: bold;" | origin | ||
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| style="background-color: pink;" | llet | | style="background-color: pink;" | llet | ||
| style="background-color: pink;" | latte | | style="background-color: pink;" | latte | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" | o leite | ||
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|style="font-weight: bold;" | sea | |style="font-weight: bold;" | sea | ||
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| − | | style="background-color: teal;" | mare | + | | style="background-color: teal;" | mare |
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" | o mar | ||
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|style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2" | honey | |style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2" | honey | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | el mel | | style="background-color: teal;" | el mel | ||
| style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | miele | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | miele | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" rowspan="2" | o mel | ||
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| style="background-color: pink;" | la mel | | style="background-color: pink;" | la mel | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | ghiacciu | | style="background-color: teal;" | ghiacciu | ||
| + | | style="background-color: teal;" | o xeo | ||
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| style="font-weight: bold;" | landscape | | style="font-weight: bold;" | landscape | ||
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| style="background-color: teal;" | paesaggiu | | style="background-color: teal;" | paesaggiu | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" | a paisaxe | ||
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| style="font-weight: bold;" | cloud | | style="font-weight: bold;" | cloud | ||
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| style="background-color: pink;" | nue | | style="background-color: pink;" | nue | ||
| + | | style="background-color: pink;" | a nube | ||
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| style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2" | valley | | style="font-weight: bold;" rowspan="2" | valley | ||
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| style="background-color: pink;" | la contchête | | style="background-color: pink;" | la contchête | ||
| style="background-color: teal;" | le conqùet | | style="background-color: teal;" | le conqùet | ||
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| + | | style="background-color: pink;" | a conquista | ||
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|style="font-weight: bold;" | flag | |style="font-weight: bold;" | flag | ||
Revision as of 22:41, 13 January 2008
Spanish and French, both being Romance languages, have a gender attribute to their nouns. Also, being related, many words have the same origin. These are called cognates. In French, cognates that don't have the same meaning as their source are called faux amis. Having studied French before Spanish, and not ever having been good at remembering what gender a given noun was in French, I found it convenient to rely on Spanish when I needed a noun's gender, since remembering a noun's gender in Spanish is as simple as learning only a few rules and a handful of exceptions. However, it turns out that not all French-Spanish cognates have the same gender, though probably well over 90% do.
Here's a small compilation of exceptions that Jonathan North Washington, Hannah Beth Washington, George Martin Fell Brown, and Michael-Forest Meservy have been able to collect.
The Chart
| English | Latin | French | Spanish | Portuguese | Italian | Romansh | Jèrriais | Cotentinais | Romanian | Occitan | Catalan | Sardinian | Galician |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First declension | |||||||||||||
| edge, border | ora, orae (1f) | la bordure | la orla | a orla | l'orlo (masc) | bordură (fem) | oru | o bordo | |||||
| Second declension | |||||||||||||
| nose | nasus, nasi (2m) | le nez | la nariz | o nariz | il naso | il nas | l'nez | nasu | o nariz | ||||
| journey, voyage | viaticus, viatici (2m) | le voyage | el viaje | a viagem | il viaggio | el viatge | a viaxe | ||||||
| glass | vitrum, vitri (2n) | le verre | el vidrio | o vidro | il vetro | il vaider | l'vèrre | bidru | o vidro | ||||
| la vitre | l'vitre | vetru | |||||||||||
| Third declension | |||||||||||||
| flower | flos, floris (3m) | la fleur | la flor | a flor | il fiore | la flur | la flieur | la flleur | floare (fem) | flore | a flor | ||
| înflorire (fem) | fiore | ||||||||||||
| colour | color, coloris (3m) | la couleur | el color | a cor | il colore | la colur | la couleu | la couoleu | culoare (fem) | el color | colore | a cor | |
| colorit (neut) | la color | ||||||||||||
| pain | dolor, doloris (3m) | la douleur | el dolor | a dor | il dolore | durere (fem) | el dolore | dolore | a dor | ||||
| la dolore | |||||||||||||
| bridge | pons, pontis (3m) | le pont | el puente | a ponte | il ponte | la punt | punte (fem) | el pǫnt | ponte | a ponte | |||
| ponton; pod (neut.) | ponti | ||||||||||||
| inch | pollex, pollicis (3m) | le pouce | la pulgada | a polegada | il pollice | il polesch | poddighe (mannu) | a polgada | |||||
| blood | sanguis, sanguinis (3m) | le sang | la sangre | o sangue | il sangue | il sang | l'sang | sînge ("masc") | sang (fem) | sanguni | o sangue | ||
| sang (masc) | sangu | ||||||||||||
| salt | sal, salis (3m) | le sel | la sal | o sal | il sale | il sal | sare (fem) | la sal | sale | o sal | |||
| labor, task, ploughing | labor, laboris (3m) | le labeur | la labor | o lavouro | il lavoro | o labor | |||||||
| le labour | |||||||||||||
| end | finis, finis (3m, i-stem) | la fin | el fin | o fim | la fine | la fin | fine | o fin | |||||
| il fine | finis | ||||||||||||
| tree | arbor, arboris (3f) | l'arbre (masc) | el árbol | a árvore | l'albero (masc) | l'arbre (masc); l'bouais | l'âbre (masc) | arvere | a árbore | ||||
| a(l/r)bure | |||||||||||||
| art | ars, artis (3f) | l'art (masc) | el arte | a arte | l'arte (fem) | l'art (masc) | l'art (masc) | arte | a arte | ||||
| las artes | |||||||||||||
| custom | consuetudo, consuetudinis (3f) | la coutume | la costumbre | o costume | il costume | costumene | o costume | ||||||
| origin | origo, originis (3f) | l'origine (fem) | el origen | a origem | l'origine (fem) | origine (fem) | origine | a orixe | |||||
| hail | grando, grandinis (3f) | la grêle | el granizo | o granizo | la grandine | la granella | |||||||
| milk | lac, lactis (3n) | le lait | la leche | o leite | il latte | il latg | l'lait | lapte (neut) | lach | llet | latte | o leite | |
| sea | mar, maris (3n) | la mer | el mar | o mar | il mare | la mar | la mé | la mé | mare (fem) | mare | o mar | ||
| honey | mel, mellis (3n) | le miel | la miel | o mel | il miele | miere (fem) | el mel | miele | o mel | ||||
| la mel | |||||||||||||
| Fourth declension | |||||||||||||
| Fifth declension | |||||||||||||
| ice | glacies, glaciei (5f) | la glace | el hielo | o gelo | il ghiaccio | il glatsch | ghiacciu | o xeo | |||||
| landscape | le paysage | el paisaje | a paisagem | il paesaggio | paesaggiu | a paisaxe | |||||||
| cloud | nubes, nubis (?f) | le nuage | la nube | a nuvem | la nuvola | il nivel | l'nouage | la nuaée | nue | a nube | |||
| valley | valles, vallis (?f) | la vallée | el valle | o vale | la valle | la val | la vallée | la vall | badde | o val | |||
| valli | |||||||||||||
| conquest | la conquète | la conquista | a conquista | la conquista | la contchête | le conqùet | a conquista | ||||||
| flag | le drapeau | la bandera | a bandeira | la bandiera | la couleu | la couoleu | |||||||
| spider | l'araignée (fem) | la araña | a aranha | il ragno | l'pêtre | ||||||||
| Neologisms | |||||||||||||
| make-up | le maquillage | el maquillaje | a maquiagem | ||||||||||
| garage | le garage | el garaje | a garagem | la garascha | garaj (neut) | el garatge | |||||||
| car | l'auto (fem) | el auto | o auto | l'auto (fem) | l'auto (masc) | la vaituthe; moto (?) | la qùérette; la maringote; l'éto (?) | automobil (neut) | l'auto (masc) | ||||
| tomato | la tomate | el tomate | o tomate | la tomata | la tanmate | tomată | el tomàquet | ||||||
| Created from adjectival forms | |||||||||||||
| minute | la minute | el minuto | o minuto | il minuto | la minuta | la minnute | la minute | minut | |||||
| Derived from verbs | |||||||||||||
| conquest | la conquète | la conquista | a conquista | la conquista | la contchête | le conqùet | |||||||
| shelf | l'étagère (fem) | el estante | a estante | ||||||||||
Footnotes
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