🇮🇹 Italian

bottiglie

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feminine

le bottiglie

bottles

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bottiglie
/le botˈtiʎʎe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bottiglie in Italian?

IPA
/le botˈtiʎʎe/

How do you pronounce bottiglie in Italian?

bottiglie is pronounced /le botˈtiʎʎe/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La bottiglia rossa è vuota, ma quella blu è ancora piena.

The red bottle is empty, but that blue one is still full.

Ho comprato una bottiglia italiana molto costosa per la cena speciale.

I bought a very expensive Italian bottle for the special dinner.

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Why is it feminine?

Bottiglie is feminine because it derives from the Late Latin "butticula," a diminutive form of "buttis" (barrel or cask), and Latin diminutives ending in "-cula" are grammatically feminine. The word evolved through Romance languages, retaining the feminine gender despite sound changes that obscured its diminutive origin.

What is the Italian word for bottles?

The Italian word for bottles is le bottiglie — feminine.

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