Nature - Romance languages compared to Latin 

"Munte" is the Romanian word for mountain. "Montan" is just mountain related.

Me an native speaker italian🇮🇹 it's very easy for me to understand and learn spanish, catalan, romanian, french and portuguese ... we are cousins🇮🇹🇪🇦🇷🇴🇲🇫🇵🇹 i love u cousins from an italian guy

It is beautiful how Romanian kept a lot of words from its mother language,Latin even thought it was exposed to years of Slavic admixture and isolation from other romance languages.

We (the Romanians) also have "fluviu", but it is used to describe a higher-level river . We use "rau" for low-level rivers(e.g.: Fluviul Dunarea=The Danube River but "Raul Olt=The Olt River") Also, fun fact: we have the word "spelunca"but use it to describe a low class bar (a bodega)

It is fantastic how Romanian derivated from Latin, but following another path, as in the word "earth" that, in Romanian, came from "pavimentum" (which also exists in my mother language, Portuguese, pavimento, but with a different meaning). It was like "Nah, I won't follow you, guys. I'll go by this path, it's different, but it leads me there too".

In Romanian mountains is munte. Montan means mountains related.

As an Papiamento speaker 🇦🇼🇨🇼🇧🇶 our langauge is highly influenced with Spanish, French and Portuguese so i always find our language to be the grand child of latin cause theirs soo much words i can understand. I love latin soo much. 🇦🇼🇨🇼🇧🇶🇧🇷🇵🇹🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇷🇴

You can also use monte in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian and mont in French. Munte is the right word in Romanian, because montan is an adjetive.

This was a great video. As a Spanish speaker I feel Spanish is closest to Italian and Portuguese, but find Romanian to be the most interesting of them all the Romance languages and is the one I want to learn eventually 😄. A big hug to all my Latin brothers and sisters ❤.

As a native french speaker! I can say Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are very easy for us to learn. Romanian is kinda harder due to the slavic influence imo.

In portuguese we say " espelunca " in a pejorative way to describe a place in bad conditions. Never thought that word came from latin " spelunca " that means literally cave. Now it really makes sense 😄

Um salve a comunidade de linguas latinas 🇷🇴🇧🇷🇨🇵🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹

Funny thing happend to me in Greece! I've entered a jewelery shop with my wife and the lady saluted us with "Bona sera" judging us by our looks . I told her "we are not italians, we are romanians." She was like "Ok then ! Bună seara!" 😂😂😂

The latin languages are beautiful❤🇨🇵🇮🇹🇷🇴🇵🇹🇪🇸

I love that some of the words come form ancient Greek 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇸🇨🇵🇮🇹🇹🇩🇵🇹

For « Aurora » in french we also have a common word : Aurore 😉

I'm here as a Romanian but I have lived in Italy for my whole life. I love both countries and I feel as if I'm part of both.

Etymology of the "strange" Romanian words: Forest - Pădure - Derived from Latin "Padulem" (Swamp) ; Similar to Spanish "Bosque", Romanian also has the word "Boschet" which means "Bush". Hill - Deal - Likely Pre-Latin Daco-Thracian origin from the root Proto-Indo-European word "dʰol-" ; Cognate with modern English "Dale" which means "Valley" Cave - Peșteră - From Old-Slavonic "*peťera.", cognate with modern Bulgarian "пещера" (peštera) Sunset -1 Apus - From the Romanain verb "Apune" (Setting) ultimately an archaism for "West", from Latin "apponere" (to bring together); Cognate with Occitan "ponent", also meaning "West". (UNRELATED to Greek "Apus") -2 Asfințit - From Early Romanian "*asfinge", ultimately from Latin "affingere" (to fade away). Sunrise - Răsărit - From the Romanian verb "Răsări", ultimately an archaism for "East", from Latin "re" (again) + salio (rise); Cognate with Italian "Risalire", meaning "to rise". The word "Răsare" also means "rises" in modern Romanian. Mushroom - Ciupercă - From Old Slavonic " *pečura" ; cognate with modern Bulgarian "чепурка" (chepurka) Grass - Iarbă - From Early Romanian "Earba", from Latin "herba". The Latin word "Terra" evolved into Early Romanian "Țeară" and ultimately "Țară" which used to mean "Land" (as in a land inhabited by someone), nowadays simply meaning "country". Terra simply refers to the planet itself and it is a neologism.

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For Romanian - 1. We have Fluviu too, for large rivers: Dunarea e un fluviu. 2 For Tree: Arbore (latin arbor) /Copac (thracian)/Pom (from latin Pomus) 3 Padure (lat padule)/ Codru (lat quodrum). "Forestier" meaning is of the forest. We use silvic or silvan with the meaning of of the forest. ex. Domeniu silvic/forestier. Padure comes from latin also (Padulem), italian equivalent is Padule. Pădure is feminine substantive for forest, or a piece of tree land. Codru is masculine substantive for forest and means deep, old, dense forrest. Codru is more the place (forest) for outlaws like Robin Hood type. Codrii Cosminului is a famous battle place. 4. We have caverna/Grota/pestera and spelunca. Althrough we use to call any dubious darkened (and /or underground) bar a "o speluncă ordinară" (common cave). 5 For sunset. Apus (greek)/Asfințit (relatively recent, relig)/Înserare (latin) /Crepuscul (latin). PS. Uccidere is also ucide in romanian. Moldavians will say: Ucide becul (turn down the light). 6 Sunrise Răsărit (East) / Zori (Dawn) / Soare-răsare (Sunrise)/Auroră (Dawn)/Revărsatul zilei (Dawning). In romanian , white is Alb/Alba (masc/fem) 7 Rock is Piatră (latin)/Lespede (latin)Stâncă (dacian) /Stană (dacian). Stanca and Stana - female names. Stan /Stancu - male name. The name Stan is the equivalent of Peter. "Lespede" is more like a flat rock, Lespede (also used for tombstone - Lespede de mormînt) 8.Meadow is Pajiste (lat)/Luncă (slav) /Zăvoi (slav) 9 Burete (latin - boletus)/ Ciupercă (bulg) /Fungus (inv). Burete/bureți is most used. South/South east more used is ciupercă/ciuperci. 10 Terra - pamânt (lat pavimentum) / țărână (lat - terrina)/țară, țeară (lat. terra)

So basically Romanian has a lot of synonims, fortunately I speak spanish too and we also have tons of synonims. Forest: pădure/codru/forestier River: fluviu (big river), râu (medium-small river) Hill: colină/deal Cave: peșteră/grotă/cavernă Desert: deșert/pustiu Sunrise: răsărit/auroră/crepuscul (different phenomena) Sunset: apus/asfințit Mushroom: fungus/ciupercă/bureți Prairie: pajiște/prat/fâneața Agricultural prairie: câmp/livadă/izlauri Tree: arbore/copac/pom

0:52 "Silva" É um sobrenome bem comum no Brasil, pois foi dado a milhares de escravos durante o período colonial, e também muitos portugueses que vieram para o Brasil em busca de uma vida nova adotaram o "Silva" para beneficiarem-se do anonimato que o sobrenome oferecia.

In Romanian, “pom” is also used for fruit bearing trees and in some dialects it is the main word people use to mean “tree”.

As a Spanish speaker learning both Italian and Latin, this is an incredibly well made video!

I love that the Irish “lough” or Scot’s Gaelic “loch” also comes from the Latin “lacus”. I’m a native English-speaker, but I also speak fluent French, German, Spanish and Italian, so I found this video fascinating. It makes me want to go back and study Latin, which I did study for six years in secondary school. Gratias maximas. 👏🏼

0:07 In Romanian the noun "râu" (which used to be spelled as "rîu" before the Academy did some shenanigans) is used to describe any body of running water bigger than a spring, as is the one we use on a daily basis. The noun "fluviu" is reserved for the biggest of rivers in the World: the Danube, the Volga, the Yangtze, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi-Missouri, etc. We also have cavernă în Romanian, meaning the same thing. Grotă is also a synonym, though it is seldom used as it is regarded as an argot term (although the word comes from Latin crypta). "Ieși din grotă!/Sal de la gruta!/Come out of the...crypt!" :) When we refer to the physical place we usually use the Slavic noun "peștera". That noun is considered "popular" while the others are from the...High Language, the Latin language, the language of the Lords, of the Emperors. That's the thing in Romanian language, its vocabulary contains words not just from Latin (and the other Romance languages like Italian and French) but also from South-Slavic languages, with a Thraco-Dacian substrate (that's why the language is called Daco-Romanian) and also borrowings from Magyar, Turkish and German.

what a resemblance between the Latin languages, beautiful.

5:05 In Romanian we also use the word "Litoral" to mean beach

4:25 In French, we also have the verb "occire", which means "to kill". It's pretty old-fashioned/literary by now, though. Aside from "coucher du soleil", we also have "crépuscule" (from "crepusculum"), which I'm pretty sure also exists in other Romance languages. I also like how we can see that a lot of English words are also of Romance origin, usually through Old Norman French (river, forest, lake, nature, mountain, valley, cave, desert, herb). Not "island", btw, this is a Germanic word, and the introduction of an "s" in writing was done later, and it was because of "isle"' which does come from Old French. Also, cognate between "hill" and "collis", I believe. I smell Grimm's law here. The history of "bosc/bosco/bosque" is a fascinating one, because it comes from an Old Frankish word ("*busk"), related to "bush" in English, which is the source of many words in French. It became the word "bois" ("wood"), and also gave us the words "buisson" ("bush") and "bûche" ("log"). It also became "bouquet", which was then borrowed into English. Occitan also derived the word "bosquet", meaning "copse, thicket, grove", which was borrowed into French.

I feel do inclined to visit and explore Romania! Greetings from Brazil.

I'm an 🇮🇹 native speaker but I didn't know many of those fact. Really interesting. Also fun fact! "Lapis" (stone in Latin) is commonly used in my vernacular dialect for (graphite) pencil.

4:03 A curious thing is that in Portuguese "Espelunca" (or Spelunca in Latin) is also used in the connotative sense to indicate a disorganized/dirty/ugly place. For example: "Mas que espelunca esse lugar!" Which means "What a dirty, ugly, disorganized place". Aliás, não tenho certeza se Espelunca é utilizado em Portugal também no dia-a-dia, se algum Português puder me responder, eu ficaria grato.

Latin, the language of ancient Rome, is the mother of Romance languages, which are an evolved Latin, they are the most beautiful languages in the world, and heirs to the legacy of ancient Rome. 🦅 LATIN 🌿SPQR🌿 LEGIO AETERNA VICTRIX ITALIANO 🇮🇹 Legione della vittoria eterna. ESPAÑOL 🇪🇦 Legión de la victoria eterna. PORTUGUÊS 🇵🇹 Legião da vitória eterna. FRANÇAIS 🇲🇫 Légion de la victoire éternelle. ROMÂNĂ 🇷🇴 Legiunea victoriei eterne.

French: Switch all A's with E's Spanish: Add I's before every E Portuguese: Add nasal sounds (H's) whenever possible Italian: Remove all E's before S's, Add G's whenever appropriate. Romanian: Either keep the original spelling or abandon the Latin word altogether (Sigma grindset).

Os idiomas românicos são os mais bonitos e são muitos parecidos uns com os outros

I can go in Portugal, Brazil and Spain saying “Lago” and people would understand me; that’s beautiful Edit: love to all romance languages speakers 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇷🇴🇪🇸🇵🇹 from an italian guy

En occitan (southern France): 1) flume/fluvi 2) arbre 3) forèst/sèlva 4) lac 5) natura 6) cèl 7) montanha 8) puèch/colina 9) valada 10) mar 11) espeluga/tuta/cauna 12) calabrun/solelhcolc 13) aurora/albor 14) plaja 15) pèira 16) illa/iscla 17) desèrt 18) prat/pradariá 19) campairòl 20) estela 21) èrba 22) aiga 23) fuòc 24) tèrra

Creo que el italiano 🇮🇹 y el rumano 🇷🇴 son los más próximos al Latin. Saludos 🇪🇸

Sou brasileiro e consigo entender o espanhol e o italiano!!Viva os povos latinos👏👏👏

As a Spanish speaker I find this so interesting! For example: Silva means forest but Silva is also a common surname

Romania 🇷🇴 is the most wonderful and amazing country in the world. Thank you very much

(Catalan pronunciaton may not match its orthography) In catalan: 1. Fluvius = Riu 2. Arbror = Arbre -Silva = Bosc 3. Lacus = Llac 4. Natura = Natura -Caelum = Cel 5. Collis = Turó -Vallis = Vall 7. Mare = Mar 8. Caverna = Cova/ Caverna 9. Ocasus = Capvespre -Aurora = Alba 10. Plagia = Platja 11. Petra = Pedra 12. Insula = illa 13. Desertum = Desert 14. Pratum = Prat 15. Fongus = Fong/ Xampinyó/ Bolet 16. Stella = Estel 17. Herba = Herba 18. Aqua = Aigua 19. Focus = Foc 20. Terra = Terra

Me encantó este video nos permite aprender que en nuestras lenguas latinas hay palabras muy similares.

In Romanian, we have also the word “fluviu”, similar to french, which means: a larger river: for example: “Dunărea este un fluviu/râu” - “The Danube is a river”

I'm Native in Romanian and fluent in french and as well I speak a bit of Italian due to it's similarity with my native language . This video was great 😁✌

Con tutti i latini noi saremo fratelli.🇨🇵🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹🇹🇩

As a native Romanian speaker I noticed that you wrote the word "montan" (means mountain related) ,the actual word is "munte"(sg. form),munti(pl. form).Also the correct writing for desert is deșert.

Very educative. I am a Persian native speaker. For a whole life, I used to hear all these words but did not know where they come from. Now I know they have Latin routes.

Thanks for the great content

Espelunca in Portugal means a crappy house

it is beautiful to share with many other people the roots of our languages !!

Such worthy content . Cheers for reminding me of the connectedness of the words we speak. True balm in troubling times. Good use of time.

es hermoso como los idiomas originaron de uno solo yo soy de Mexico y entiendo a casi la perfección el italiano y portugués gracias a su origen te quedo genial el video

Asturian language: River = Ríu Tree = Árbol Forest = Viesca Lake = Llagu Nature = Natura, naturaleza Sky = Cielu Mountain = Monte Hill = Llomba Valley = Valle Sea = Mar Cave = Cueva Sunset = Atardecer, atapecer Sunrise = Amanecer Beach = Playa, sablera Stone = Piedra Island = Islla Desert = Desiertu, ermu Meadow = Prau, pradera Mushroom = Seta, fungu Star = Estrella Herb = Yerba, herba Water = Agua Fire = Fueu Earth = Tierra

This is a very nice post! Very concise and informative too.

Not sure if this was already mentioned in the comments, in Romanian, for cave, there's also the term "cavernă" similar to the other Romance languages. It also stands for a cavity in a tissue or a body part, or some sort of an opening to a void, although it's less used for this. 'Spelunca' from Latin is also used for cave in Romanian, but it's really rare, so rare that I haven't heard it yet used in a normal conversation. "Spelunca" also sounds very similar to "spelunca/ă" which means a very bad and cheap and dirty pub, mostly poor lit and in underground/basements, which may be where the connection to a cave lies (not sure though)"

Meds power! So proud of our common ancient culture! Greets and love from an Italian cousin 🥰🇮🇹

J'embrasse tout mes frères latin. Force à nous !

I am a romanian born and I speak 4 romance languages: romanian, spanish, french and catalan and ofc i understand portuguese and italian

0:07 And that's why we call someone who was born in RIo de Janeiro State a "fluminense".

In Portuguese, "monte" for "mons, montis" is very common; also "aurora" for "aurora". "Espelunca" does exist but meaning any disorderly place not a cave.

LATIN EUROPE 🇮🇹🇸🇲🇻🇦🇲🇫🇪🇦🇵🇹🇹🇩 the best Europe, and LATIN AMERICA 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇨🇷 🇪🇨 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇵🇾 🇸🇻 🇺🇾 🇻🇪 🇧🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 The best America. (America is a continent not a country).

Absolutely loved it!!

Salve! Em português é usada a palavra "Aurora". Porém sou brasileiro sendo assim não posso afirmar que em Portugal a palavra é usada atualmente pois apesar de compartilharmos a mesma lingua existem diferenças entre algumas pronúncias essas quais foram conservadas desde do colonialismo e outras não. Abraços!

4:53 In Portuguese, "aurora" refers to the sunlight in sky before the sunrise (i.e., dawn). The time of day when a "aurora" happens that is called "alvorada". The sunrise properly is called "nascer do Sol" (sun birth, a Latin calque from "ordus solis").

In Portuguese there are several synonyms. In the case of SUNRISE, we can say AURORA, ALVORADA, NASCER DO SOL and even CREPÚSCULO (twilight in the sky between night and sunrise or between sunset and night). A curiosity: the first movie in "The Twilight Saga" movie series was called CREPÚSCULO in Brazil, while the last one was called AMANHECER ( also a synonym for SUNRISE).

I'm not even European or a Latino. I'm Indian. Yet it is not that hard for me to learn romance languages because of numerous similarities between Sanskrit (the base of most Indian languages) and Latin (the base of Romance languages, the loan words of which are included even in Germanic languages). Till now I have learnt basic Spanish and some Latin itself. I can understand written Portuguese.

1:10 in french there's also bosquet 4:52 aurore 5:07 littoral 6:52 fonges

C'est totalement incroyable de voir comme toutes les langues Venant d'une même langue étant le latin qui était parlée y'a plusieurs siècles, j'suis en Parleur espagnol et j'ai déjà commencé à étudier la langue française pendant 2 ans et je peux dire que cette truc c'est totalement facile de le faire puisque l'espagnol et le français étant 2 langues qui viennent du latin pour moi et pour beaucoup de personnes ça c'est totalement amusant et facile

In portuguese, we use "Ocidente" as West, or as a synonym for the direction where the sun sets. Same deal with "Oriente" from _oriens_ . Aurora is also portuguese for the same word in latin.

A lot of times you can recognize words directly from Latin to Italian if they end with um/us (mostly um) they changed in time with "o" so for example pavimentum (that means ground/floor) in Italian is Pavimento

Las lenguas más lindas son las romances ...

In Italian: spelonca is (rarely) used as a synonym of caverna or grotta; monte is widely used instead of montagna, especially when referred to a specific one; vallata (related to French “vallée”) is also used for valle; selva is archaic (right, Dante?) but comprehensible, the related adjective silvestre is more commonly found in names of animals or plants; Lido is also a common word for a beach, especially when it hosts a bathhouse. Finally, in Venice every small canal is called a rio.

You should add the genders for those words too, as those also relate to how similar Romance languages are in relation to Latin. For instance, even though the word for tree is similar in all romance languages, Portuguese was the only one that kept its original feminine gender (árvore), as the word for tree is also feminine in Latin (arbor).

For those talking about Portuguese name "Silva", it was common to give name from the places you born, to identify the person in the IX till XV century. People that had came from other countries or didn't knew where they came from, the country gave them name "Silva". The ones that came from the forest and making them 1000% Portuguese :) Cheers

Precisamente porque podemos leer con facilidad nuestras lenguas romances (salvo el rumano, que cuesta más) no tenemos por qué utilizar el inglés como lengua franca para la comunicación escrita.

In Romanian we have the word "Silvic" for forest related activities. Like the Silvic Centers that tend to forests, for examples.

In Spanish we also say Aurora (Dawm), lápida (tombstone), lapidario or lapidar (words derived from "lapis"). Also from "focus" comes "foco" (lamp, light bulb and also focal point).

In sunrise, in Portuguese, it can also be said "nascer do sol" (it is commonly spoken more than the others). Also in Portuguese, "lapis" is a word and it means pencil.

What an amazing video. Greetings from Brazil.

Romanian sunrise - rasarit comes from lat. resalire.

The word "Loch" is not borrowed from Latin. It comes from Old Irish "Loch" from Primitive Irish "*ᚂᚑᚉᚒ" (*loxu), and if it had been borrowed from Latin it would have been "Lach" or "Lac". Both Latin and Irish words are from PIE "*lókus".

Only two things: In spanish you can use: Aurora/Alba/Amanecer. In Romanian Mons its Munte!.

Some remarks on romanian. Natură, grotă, forestier, montan, colină, plajă, insulă, fungus, terra seem to be late borrowings. E.g. the inherited word for "terra" is "țară"

The word "Crépuscule" is also used in French to designate the sunset and "Aurore" to the sunrise. For the last word, we also use the term "Foyer" to designate a fireplace. And as for the Spanish, it can also mean home.

I really love how the word for desert can be traced back to ancient Egypt! 🤩

Romanians are Roman-Daci. Amazing nation, sexy language. Proud to be a Romanian citizen.

Nice video. In Portuguese, the latin word "silva" remained by erudite way the name of the blackberry plant. For Mountain, we also have the word "monte", that is closest to its root word of "mons". For "sunrise", we also use "aurora".

In Spanish for tombstone you can say “lápida” similar to the Portuguese word. Also for sunset you can say “puesta del sol”

In French we can find the adjective "Sylvestre" (which is a also a name) for the definition of something forest-related

Nice video. There's some pretty big romance languages missing from the video, though, like catalan, sardinian, occitan etc...

Great video for my kids. We're in the US, but they speak some French and Romanian (native languages for us, parents) and they study Spanish in school. One of them is learning Italian for our next trip to Rome.

For river, în romanian we also use "fluviu", but only for the big ones, like Volga or Danube

Les recuerdo que el idioma inglés tiene casi 40% de base latina y el Imperio Romano ocupo Inglaterra por ciento de años, fundó Londres con el nombre de Londinium e hizo una muralla para separarla de Escocia, saludos

Very cool! It's important to note that daily words in spanish as river (río) are quite different from latin, but more specific ones are very similar. Ej. Fluvial: related to the rivers

Ancient romanian has also Lespede from Lapis

Native romanian speaker here: “Fluviu” is the word for a big river, like Danube. “Râu” is used for medium and small rivers. So very close to the latin version. Also in the romanian language we have the words : Cavernă, Speluncă which are synonymous with Peșteră (cave). So a lot of latin words are kept, but you can clearly see the slavic influence

Romanian feels strangely familiar to me being native Spanish speaker and knowing italian, sometimes i feel more familiar with romanian than italian French looks similar in the paper, but a French speaker sounds like alien to me That's something even more strange, you kinda can communicate with other latin speaker if you do it by writing

I find this all so fascinating.

In French we also have the word "bosquet" which means "grove"