🇮🇹 Italian

ceneri

feminine

le ceneri

ashes

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ceneri
/le ˈtʃeːneri/
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How do you say ceneri in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈtʃeːneri/

How do you pronounce ceneri in Italian?

ceneri is pronounced /le ˈtʃeːneri/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La cenere grigia si è depositata su tutte le superfici dopo l'eruzione vulcanica.

The gray ash deposited itself on all surfaces after the volcanic eruption.

Quella cenere antica era molto preziosa per gli archeologi che l'hanno studiata.

That ancient ash was very precious to the archaeologists who studied it.

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Why is it feminine?

Ceneri is feminine because it descends from Latin "cinis" (ash), which belonged to the third declension and had feminine gender, a classification that Italian preserved through sound changes that obscured the original Latin form. The feminine gender stuck despite the word's modern appearance being quite different from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Italian word for ashes?

The Italian word for ashes is le ceneri — feminine.

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