🇮🇹 Italian

centesimi

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masculine

i centesimi

cents

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centesimi
/i tʃenˈtɛːzimi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say centesimi in Italian?

IPA
/i tʃenˈtɛːzimi/

How do you pronounce centesimi in Italian?

centesimi is pronounced /i tʃenˈtɛːzimi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il centesimo anno della fondazione è stato celebrato con una grande festa.

The hundredth year of the founding was celebrated with a big party.

Ho trovato il centesimo centesimo nella mia tasca, era una moneta molto rara.

I found the hundredth cent in my pocket, it was a very rare coin.

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Why is it masculine?

Centesimi is masculine because it derives from Latin "centesimus" (the ordinal form of "centum," meaning hundred), which was grammatically masculine, and Italian retained this gender from its Romance language ancestry. The -o ending in Italian typically marks masculine nouns, reinforcing the gender that came down from Latin.

What is the Italian word for cents?

The Italian word for cents is i centesimi — masculine.

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