🇮🇹 Italian

avvocato

masculine

l' avvocato

lawyer

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avvocato
/lavvoˈkaːto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say avvocato in Italian?

IPA
/lavvoˈkaːto/

How do you pronounce avvocato in Italian?

avvocato is pronounced /lavvoˈkaːto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo avvocato esperto ha vinto la causa difficile.

The experienced (masculine) lawyer won the difficult case.

Quell'avvocato bravo è stato nominato giudice.

That skilled (masculine) lawyer was appointed judge.

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Why is it masculine?

Avvocato is masculine because it derives from the Latin "advocatus" (masculine noun), which originally referred to a person called upon to help or defend another, and Italian retained the masculine grammatical gender from its Latin ancestor. The suffix "-ato" in Italian typically produces masculine nouns, reinforcing this gender classification.

What is the Italian word for lawyer?

The Italian word for lawyer is l' avvocato — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchavocatl'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishabogadoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseadvogadoomasculine

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