🇮🇹 Italian

documento

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masculine

il documento

document

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documento
/il dokuˈmento/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say documento in Italian?

IPA
/il dokuˈmento/

How do you pronounce documento in Italian?

documento is pronounced /il dokuˈmento/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il documento ufficiale è stato firmato dal notaio.

The official document was signed by the notary.

Questo documento importante contiene informazioni riservate.

This important document contains confidential information.

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Why is it masculine?

Documento is masculine in Italian because it derives from the Latin "documentum," which was itself masculine, following the standard masculine ending "-um" in Latin's second declension that typically became "-o" in Romance languages. The gender was preserved through this direct inheritance from Latin.

What is the Italian word for document?

The Italian word for document is il documento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdocumentlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishdocumentoelmasculine

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