magazine

Magazine is masculine in French. While it does derive from Italian "magazzino" (warehouse), which ultimately comes from Arabic "makhzan" (storehouse), the explanation for why it retained masculine gender is speculative. In reality, "magazine" is masculine in French simply because it is—this is a lexical fact rather than following a predictable pattern based on its etymology or semantic field. Many French nouns ending in "-ine" are feminine (e.g., "magazine" should actually be noted as an exception), but "magazine" is one of the masculine nouns ending in this suffix, making it an idiomatic exception that cannot be reliably predicted by rule.