Olympic Games in Romance languages

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Here are some examples of the expression The Olympic Games in various Romance languages. The list highlights the similarities between some adjacent languages, but also the vast differences between languages at different ends of the range. I notice that the plural in -s suddenly disappears as we move into the Gallo-Italian languages. (However, it is found in Sardinian, which is definitely distinct from Italian.)

Portuguese

Os Jogos Olímpicos

Spanish

Los Juegos Olímpicos

Catalan

Els Jocs Olímpics

Occitan

Los Jòcs Olimpics

French

Les Jeux olympiques

Romansh

Ils Gieus Olimpics

Piedmontese

Ij gieugh olìmpich

Italian

I Giochi olimpici

Sicilian

Li Jochi Ulìmpici or Li Jòcura Olìmpici^[1]

Romanian

Jocurile^[2] Olimpice^[3]

Notes
1. There are dialectal differences and one form leans towards Romanian somewhat.
2. Jocuri is the plural of joc and the suffix -le is a definite article.
3. In Romanian joc is a neuter noun and the neuter forms of adjectives are the same as the masculine in the singular and as the feminine in the plural. Hermaphrodite adjectives!

Posted October 2017