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la costola
rib
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How do you say costola in Italian?
How do you pronounce costola in Italian?
costola is pronounced /la ˈkɔstola/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La costola rotta mi fa male quando respiro profondamente.
The broken rib hurts me when I breathe deeply.
Quella costola sporgente della scultura è stata restaurata con grande precisione.
That protruding rib of the sculpture was restored with great precision.
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Why is it feminine?
Costola is feminine because it derives from Latin "costa" (rib), which was a first-declension feminine noun, and Italian regularly preserves the feminine gender of Latin first-declension words ending in -a. This is a straightforward application of the gender inheritance rule from Latin to Italian.
What is the Italian word for rib?
The Italian word for rib is la costola — feminine.
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