🇮🇹 Italian

centri

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masculine

i centri

centers

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centri
/i ˈtʃɛntri/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say centri in Italian?

IPA
/i ˈtʃɛntri/

How do you pronounce centri in Italian?

centri is pronounced /i ˈtʃɛntri/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il centro storico è molto affollato durante il fine settimana.

The historic downtown is very crowded during the weekend.

Il centro commerciale nuovo è stato inaugurato ieri ed è già pieno di clienti.

The new shopping center was inaugurated yesterday and is already full of customers.

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Why is it masculine?

Centri is masculine in Italian. It derives from Latin "centrum," which was originally a neuter noun in classical Latin. However, the rule stated is misleading: Italian -o endings typically signal masculine gender, and "centro" follows this regular pattern. Words ending in -o are consistently masculine in Italian, regardless of their Latin gender. The etymology from Latin "centrum" and ultimately from Greek "kentron" (κέντρον) is accurate, but the explanation conflates historical Latin gender with modern Italian gender assignment. The word is masculine primarily because it follows the productive -o masculine ending pattern in modern Italian, not because of a special "gender reassignment" process.

What is the Italian word for centers?

The Italian word for centers is i centri — masculine.

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