Hola, banda.
In Spanish, there are two words that are spelled exactly the same and derive from the same etynom, however mean different things (not to say that there is no semantic association): competencia (purview/competence) and competencia (competition).
Now, they come from different verbs (the former, competer, "correspond"; the latter, competir, "compete"), but both these verbsderive were (probably) borrowed from the same Latin verb: competĕre meaning "agree, correspond" (according to the DRAE).
Context clarifies everything, of course. (I have read/heard a couple of sentences where it wasn't immediately clear which competencia was being referred to, but it could have been a case of being supercogitabundus.
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I was just wondering if anybody had any information about these words, their relationship, a bit of history, whatever. It has just always been a curiosity of mine.
Gracias de antemano.
In Spanish, there are two words that are spelled exactly the same and derive from the same etynom, however mean different things (not to say that there is no semantic association): competencia (purview/competence) and competencia (competition).
Now, they come from different verbs (the former, competer, "correspond"; the latter, competir, "compete"), but both these verbs
Context clarifies everything, of course. (I have read/heard a couple of sentences where it wasn't immediately clear which competencia was being referred to, but it could have been a case of being supercogitabundus.
)I was just wondering if anybody had any information about these words, their relationship, a bit of history, whatever. It has just always been a curiosity of mine.
Gracias de antemano.
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