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i cucchiai
spoons
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How do you say cucchiai in Italian?
How do you pronounce cucchiai in Italian?
cucchiai is pronounced /i kukˈkjaːi/ in Italian.
Example sentences
Il cucchiaio grande è caduto nel piatto di minestra calda.
The large spoon fell into the plate of hot soup.
Questo cucchiaio d'argento antico è molto prezioso e delicato.
This ancient silver spoon is very precious and delicate.
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Why is it masculine?
Cucchiai derives from Latin "cochliārium" (a spoon, from "concha" meaning shell), and it retained the masculine gender of its Latin source word, which used the masculine -ium suffix. Like many Italian masculine nouns, it evolved from Latin masculine forms and maintained that grammatical gender through sound changes (cochliārium > cocchiāio > cucchiaio).
What is the Italian word for spoons?
The Italian word for spoons is i cucchiai — masculine.
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