🇮🇹 Italian

bottone

masculine

il bottone

button

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bottone
/il botˈtoːne/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bottone in Italian?

IPA
/il botˈtoːne/

How do you pronounce bottone in Italian?

bottone is pronounced /il botˈtoːne/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il bottone rosso della mia camicia si è staccato stamattina.

The red button of my shirt came off this morning.

Questo bottone è troppo grande per il buco della giacca.

This button is too big for the buttonhole of the jacket.

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Why is it masculine?

Bottone is masculine. While the word does derive from Romance roots related to buttons/knobs, the masculine gender is primarily due to the productive Italian suffix "-one," which is characteristically masculine and is commonly used to form masculine nouns from various stems. The gender is a feature of Italian morphology rather than a direct preservation of a specific Latin masculine noun.

What is the Italian word for button?

The Italian word for button is il bottone — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchboutonlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishbotónelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesebotãoomasculine

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