🇮🇹 Italian

cicatrice

feminine

la cicatrice

scar

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cicatrice
/la tʃikaˈtriːtʃe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cicatrice in Italian?

IPA
/la tʃikaˈtriːtʃe/

How do you pronounce cicatrice in Italian?

cicatrice is pronounced /la tʃikaˈtriːtʃe/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La cicatrice profonda sulla sua fronte è rimasta visibile per anni.

The deep scar on her forehead remained visible for years.

Quella cicatrice antica racconta una storia dolorosa che non dimenticherà mai.

That old scar tells a painful story that she will never forget.

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Why is it feminine?

Cicatrice is feminine in Italian because it derives from Latin "cicatrix" (feminine), which belongs to the third declension feminine nouns ending in -x; Italian retained the feminine gender while regularizing the ending to -e, following the pattern of many Latin third-declension feminine nouns that became feminine -e nouns in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for scar?

The Italian word for scar is la cicatrice — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchcicatricelafeminine

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