{"id":23778,"date":"2024-11-20T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23778"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:00:24","slug":"paved-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23778","title":{"rendered":"Paved Floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian word <strong>pavimento<\/strong> looks like the English word <strong>pavement<\/strong>, but actually means <strong>floor<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s find out more.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/125601701@N03\/49876980026\/in\/photolist-7cXDoE-7cXDjb-7cXDmN-2VDU1B-2onXgiQ-8DJHUq-2jQ59ix-2iZsytu-s3oxi-5gX2Za-bwUasj-2aPn8PT-2mEC84V-adJ97P-q1mPQD-bjKetD-2q2MkbZ-6nJzmV-vNvxq-7gEC8g-2ixm2SY-4sHmM-NzryU-6Sqtyj-4wNsDk-2e6E1og-2n4abb8-2iy3MMB-5kUBFN-8RbFgf-amdyzP-acnEo-8R8xiH-6SmoNn-KXfqwY-dYNLxJ-7R9z11-2g3228K-62XHYt-Ku52Dx-ovCAU-5hTyYZ-522mVb-bomsgq-Nig47t-LhUNa7-5UczZY-CNva8P-vzwKDP\" title=\"Regarde o\u00f9 tu marches !\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49876980026_eaf1a6c030_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Regarde o\u00f9 tu marches !\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pavimento<\/strong> [pa.vi\u02c8men.to] comes from Latin <em>pav\u012bmentum<\/em> (a floor composed of small stones beaten down) from <em>pavi\u014d<\/em> (to beat, strike, ram, tread down), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*peh\u2082w-<\/em> (to strike, hit) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pavimento#Italian\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in Latin include <em>pav\u012bment\u0101rius<\/em> (floor-maker, who makes the tiled ground), <em>pav\u012bment\u014d<\/em> (to pave) and <em>pav\u012bcula<\/em> (a rammer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pavimentum#Latin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Related words in Italian include <em>pavimentare<\/em> (to floor, to pave) and <em>pavimentazione<\/em> (flooring, paving).<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Latin \/ PIE roots in other languages include <strong>paviment<\/strong> (flooring, pavement) in Catalan, <strong>pavement<\/strong> and <strong>to pave<\/strong> in English, <strong>palmant<\/strong> (pavement) in Welsh, <strong>pavement<\/strong> (paving, tiled floor) and <strong>paver<\/strong> (to cobble, pave [Canada]) in French, <strong>p\u0103m\u00e2nt<\/strong> (earth, ground, land) in Romanian, <strong>pavimento<\/strong> (road surface, paving) in Spanish, and <strong>p\u013caut<\/strong> (to mow, reap, shoot intensively) in Latvian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pavio#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53915874567\/in\/album-72177720319461387\" title=\"Amlwch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53915874567_fd26663b2d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Amlwch\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>pavement<\/strong> can refer to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road (<em>mainly in the UK, Ireland and South Africa<\/em>) &#8211; known as a <strong>sidewalk<\/strong> in North America, a <strong>banquette<\/strong> in Louisiana and Texas in the USA, and as a <strong>footpath<\/strong> in Australia, New Zealand and India<\/li>\n<li>A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface. (<em>mainly in North America<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot. (<em>mainly in North America<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pavement#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pavements<\/strong> \/ <strong>sidewalks<\/strong> have been around for a many thousands of years. There were pavements in Ancient Greece and Rome, for example, and the Romans called them <em>s\u0113mite<\/em> (narrow way, footpath, path, pathway) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidewalk\">source<\/a>], which comes from PIE <em>*sw\u00e9(d)<\/em> (by oneself, away, without) + <em>*mey-<\/em> ((ex)change). Words from the same roots include <strong>senda<\/strong> (footpath) in Catalan, <strong>sente<\/strong> (footpath, track, trail) in French, and <strong>senda<\/strong> (footpath) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/semita#Latin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Are there other words for <strong>pavement<\/strong> \/ <strong>sidewalk<\/strong> in English?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian word pavimento looks like the English word pavement, but actually means floor. Let&#8217;s find out more. Pavimento [pa.vi\u02c8men.to] comes from Latin pav\u012bmentum (a floor composed of small stones beaten down) from pavi\u014d (to beat, strike, ram, tread down), from Proto-Indo-European *peh\u2082w- (to strike, hit) [source]. Related words in Latin include pav\u012bment\u0101rius (floor-maker, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,104,107,111,128,10,15,51,64,77],"tags":[164,158,312,309,138,281,310,313,311,163],"class_list":["post-23778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalan","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-romanian","category-spanish","category-welsh","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-footpath","tag-italian","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-pavement","tag-pavimento","tag-sidewalk","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23781,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778\/revisions\/23781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}