🇮🇹 Italian

cintura

feminine

la cintura

belt

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cintura
/la tʃinˈtuːra/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cintura in Italian?

IPA
/la tʃinˈtuːra/

How do you pronounce cintura in Italian?

cintura is pronounced /la tʃinˈtuːra/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La cintura nera è molto elegante e costosa.

The black belt is very elegant and expensive.

Ho perso la mia cintura preferita al ristorante ieri sera.

I lost my favorite belt at the restaurant last night.

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Why is it feminine?

Cintura is feminine because it derives from Latin "cinctura," which was the feminine form of the noun derived from "cingere" (to gird/encircle), and Italian preserved this feminine gender from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Italian word for belt?

The Italian word for belt is la cintura — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchceinturelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishcinturón flips!elmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecinto flips!omasculine

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