True false friends

[Michael]

a asculta to obey, heed
ascoltare to listen [to]
escuchar idem
ascutà [askʷəˈt̪a] to listen in on, to listen [to] carefully or quietly

Well, it's terrible for what I try to use it for. Every time I try to use it, it fails me.

What is it that you try to use it for? Declension?

[vijayjohn]

Well, I used it for this and this.

[Luís]

cadera hip ( anca)
cadeira chair ( silla)

cacho piece ( pedaço, bocado)
cacho cluster, bunch (usually of grapes, berries or other small fruit) ( racimo)

[Homine.Sardu]

prendere - to take
prendere - to tie, to immobilize, to capture

levare - to remove
levare, leare - to take

buttare - to throw away
buttare - to puke

intendere - to understand
intendere - to hear

cocomero - water melon
cucùmere, cugùmere - cucumber

segare - to saw
segare - to cut, to break

[IpseDixit]

stand
stendersi - lie down

[Ciarán12]

puxar pull
push empurrar

[Olinguito]

table
table – backgammon

angel
Angel – (1) hinge; (2) fishing rod

[linguoboy]

bara bread
bara barrow (e.g. bara rotha "wheelbarrow")

[IpseDixit]

bara bread
bara barrow (e.g. bara rotha "wheelbarrow")

bara - coffin

[Homine.Sardu]

baule - chest, trunk
baule - coffin

[Luís]

niño child ( criança)
ninho nest ( nido)

pegar to hit someone
pegar to grab

motorista biker
motorista (car) driver

manco one-handed, one-armed ( maneta)
manco crippled (unable to walk) ( cojo)

[Homine.Sardu]

manca - lacks (antiquated for "left hand")
manca - left hand

mancante - lacking
mancante - idiot, imbecile, deficient

[Luís]

I just came across this sentence in the back of a bottle of hand lotion

per una pelle morbida

Apparently "morbido" means "soft" in Italian, but the sentence sounds awful to a Portuguese speaker ("for a skin similar to that of a dead person")

[Homine.Sardu]

Sometimes the evolution can be weird

Latin : morbus = disease -> adjective "morbidus" = ill, sick -> Italian "morbido" = soft

perhaps the evolution followed this reasoning : morbidus = ill, sick, weak, flaccid -> soft

[Car]

I just came across this sentence in the back of a bottle of hand lotion

per una pelle morbida

Apparently "morbido" means "soft" in Italian, but the sentence sounds awful to a Portuguese speaker ("for a skin similar to that of a dead person")

One of my favourite false friends in Italian.

autista - car driver

is another one.

[IpseDixit]

autista - car driver

is another one.

Autista is more of a bus driver, or more broadly a driver of more or less anything that moves on tyres*. But the main point is that autista is a job.

A car driver is called automobilista.


*Except for trucks (that would be a camionista) and taxis (that would be a tassista).

[Car]

autista - car driver

is another one.

Autista is more of a bus driver, or more broadly a driver of more or less anything that moves on tyres*. But the main point is that autista is a job.

A car driver is called automobilista.


*Except for trucks (that would be a camionista) and taxis (that would be a tassista).

Ah, thanks for that explanation, based on the sentences where I came across the word, I got that impression.

[Luís]

engrasado lubed up
engraçado funny, cute

desenvolver to unwrap ( desembrulhar)
desenvolver to develop ( desarrollar)

[Luís]

zurdo left-handed
surdo deaf (unable to hear)

[Ciarán12]

fikar - to have a coffee
ficar- to become, to be
ficken - to fuck

fita - tape
fitta - pussy (as in vulgar term for vagina)