💻Informatique et logiciels
Comment chaque langue parle des ordinateurs (et combien d'anglais elle emprunte au passage).
13 concepts
Les colonnes suivent les langues activées en haut. Le genre après le mot (m/f/n) ; l'API en dessous ; les notes, variantes et origines encore en dessous — rien n'est caché.
| Concept | English | Français | Español |
|---|---|---|---|
computer noun · jargon | computer also: laptop, PC, machine | ordinateurm also: ordi (informal), PC Coined in 1955 for IBM France by the Latinist Jacques Perret, from Latin ordinator 'one who puts in order' — a rare French coinage that completely beat the English word. | ordenadorm also: computadora (f, Latin America), computador (m, Colombia/Chile) Spain follows French; Latin America follows English. Say the wrong one and you've announced where you learned. |
keyboard noun · jargon | keyboard | clavierm AZERTY, not QWERTY. | tecladom Tecla = key (on a keyboard); llave = key (door). |
mouse noun · jargon | mouse Plural: mice — or mouses, in tech circles. | sourisf Same word as the animal. Final s silent. | ratónm also: mouse (Latin America, /maus/) |
screen noun · jargon | screen also: display, monitor | écranm Le grand écran = cinema; le petit écran = TV. | pantallaf /panˈtaja/ for most speakers. Also a lampshade. |
file noun · jargon | file | fichierm Also a card index. Dossier = folder. | archivom also: fichero (Spain, older) Also 'archive'. |
folder noun · jargon | folder also: directory | dossierm Also a file (on a person), a case, a chair back. | carpetaf False friend: not a carpet (alfombra). |
to download verb · jargon | to download | télécharger Covers BOTH download and upload; téléverser (Québec/official) for upload is spreading slowly. | descargar also: bajar (informal) Also to unload a lorry. |
to upload verb · jargon | to upload | téléverser also: télécharger (vers), mettre en ligne, uploader (informal) | subir also: cargar Literally 'to go up / raise' — subir una foto. |
password noun · jargon | password also: passcode, PIN | mot de passem pl. mots de passe | contraseñaf also: clave Literally 'counter-sign'. |
software noun · jargon | software Uncountable: a piece of software, not 'a software'. | logicielm 1970 coinage: logique + matériel (hardware = matériel). Didacticiel, ludiciel, progiciel followed the pattern. | softwarem also: programa English word; many speakers say /ˈsoɡwaɾ/ or /ˈsofwaɾ/. |
bug noun · jargon | bug Engineers' slang for a glitch since at least Edison (1878). The famous 1947 moth in Harvard's Mark II was taped into the logbook as 'first actual case of bug being found' — a joke on an already-old word. | bugm also: bogue (m, official spelling — Québec uses it) Buguer / boguer = to glitch. 'Ça bugue.' | errorm also: bug (/buɡ/), fallo |
to log in verb · jargon | to log in also: to sign in | se connecter also: s'identifier, ouvrir une session Se déconnecter = to log out. | iniciar sesión also: conectarse, loguearse (informal) Cerrar sesión = to log out. |
the cloud noun · jargon | the cloud | le cloudm also: le nuage (official), l'infonuagique (Québec) Everyone says cloud; the Académie would prefer nuage. | la nubef Spanish happily translated it: 'guardar en la nube'. |