🇮🇹 Italian

disegno

masculine

il disegno

drawing

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disegno
/il diˈzeɲɲo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say disegno in Italian?

IPA
/il diˈzeɲɲo/

How do you pronounce disegno in Italian?

disegno is pronounced /il diˈzeɲɲo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il disegno artistico è molto bello e dettagliato.

The artistic drawing is very beautiful and detailed.

Questo disegno originale è stato creato da un famoso pittore italiano.

This original drawing was created by a famous Italian painter.

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Why is it masculine?

Disegno is masculine because it derives from the Latin "designum," which retained the masculine gender of Latin nouns ending in -um when they were adopted into Italian (these typically became -o endings). The word means "drawing" or "design."

What is the Italian word for drawing?

The Italian word for drawing is il disegno — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdessinlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishdibujoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesedesenhoomasculine

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