The English word ‘community’ carries warmth no French or Italian equivalent has

Evidence

When I expressed my reservations about the title, L’imaginaire nationale, he replied that the French language has no equivalent to the English ‘community,’ with its overtones of social warmth and solidarity. ‘Communauté’ (as in Communauté Européenne) has an unavoidably cold, bureaucratic feel to it. (Marco d’Eramo later laughingly wrote to me that the Italian ‘comunità’ commonly means a drug-addicts’ halfway house.) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 802

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how ‘community’ in English has affective connotations that ‘communauté’ and ‘comunità’ lack.
• XREF: Connects to Walter Benjamin’s and Steiner’s writing on translation untranslatability and the cultural freight of single words.
• CANDY: The Italian ‘comunità’ meaning a drug-addicts’ halfway house is a delicious dinner-party fact.

Related

• The English word community carries affective overtones other languages’ equivalents lack. (similarity 0.91)