🇮🇹 Italian

cervo

masculine

il cervo

deer

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cervo
/il ˈtʃɛrvo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cervo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈtʃɛrvo/

How do you pronounce cervo in Italian?

cervo is pronounced /il ˈtʃɛrvo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il cervo maestoso saltò attraverso il bosco fitto.

The majestic deer jumped through the thick forest.

Quel cervo giovane era più veloce di quello vecchio.

That young deer was faster than the old one.

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Why is it masculine?

Cervo (deer) is masculine because it derives from Latin "cervus," which was grammatically masculine, and Italian inherited this gender classification along with the word itself during the Romance language evolution from Vulgar Latin.

What is the Italian word for deer?

The Italian word for deer is il cervo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchcerflemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishciervoelmasculine

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