🇮🇹 Italian

coppa

feminine

la coppa

cup

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coppa
/la ˈkɔppa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say coppa in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈkɔppa/

How do you pronounce coppa in Italian?

coppa is pronounced /la ˈkɔppa/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La coppa d'oro è molto pesante e preziosa.

The gold cup is very heavy and precious.

Quella coppa nuova è stata donata alla nostra squadra vincitrice.

That new cup was given to our winning team.

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Why is it feminine?

Coppa is feminine because it derives from Latin "cuppa," which was feminine in gender, and Italian retained this grammatical gender through regular phonetic evolution. The word likely originated from a Vulgar Latin term for a drinking vessel, and like many container-related nouns in Romance languages, it maintained its original feminine classification.

What is the Italian word for cup?

The Italian word for cup is la coppa — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchtasselafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishcopalafeminine

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