🇮🇹 Italian

chilometro

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masculine

il chilometro

kilometer

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chilometro
/il kiˈlɔːmetro/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say chilometro in Italian?

IPA
/il kiˈlɔːmetro/

How do you pronounce chilometro in Italian?

chilometro is pronounced /il kiˈlɔːmetro/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il chilometro è l'unità di misura più utilizzata in Europa.

The kilometer is the most commonly used unit of measurement in Europe.

Abbiamo percorso un lungo chilometro attraverso la montagna con il nostro nuovo chilometro digitale.

We covered a long kilometer through the mountain with our new digital kilometer counter.

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Why is it masculine?

Chilometro is masculine because it's a compound of "chilo-" (from Greek "chilioi," thousand) + "metro" (from Latin "metrum," measure), and "metro" is masculine in Italian, making the entire compound masculine. In Italian, when a compound noun includes a masculine component word, the compound typically inherits that gender.

What is the Italian word for kilometer?

The Italian word for kilometer is il chilometro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchkilomètrelemasculine

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