"Tell me more about it...." - More adjectives of size
| English | Spanish | French | Italian |
|---|---|---|---|
| spacious | amplio | spacieux | spazioso |
| cramped | * | à l'étroit | estretto |
| thick | espeso | épais | spesso |
| thin | fino | fin | fine |
| heavy | pesado | pesant | pesante |
| light | ligero | léger | leggero |
Notes:
* for rooms, use pequeño (little). No other good equivalent.
Sp. amplio like Eng. "ample". Other words for "spacious" should pose no problem.
Fr. à l'étroit and It. estretto (cramped) are much like étroit and stretto, both meaning narrow.
No obvious cognate for words for "thick," but they are all similar.
Words for "thin" are all like "fine".
The stem, "pes-" refers to "weight" in the Romance languages. Think of the Spanish peso, their equivalent of the British pound.
The words for "light" (of weight) are all similar. Legerdemain - lightness of the hand - is a fancy term for sleight of hand, the magician's method of pulling off card tricks.
