🇮🇹 Italian

fiore

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masculine

il fiore

flower

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fiore
/il ˈfjoːre/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fiore in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈfjoːre/

How do you pronounce fiore in Italian?

fiore is pronounced /il ˈfjoːre/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il fiore rosso è caduto dal vaso.

The red flower fell from the vase.

Questo bellissimo fiore profuma di primavera.

This very beautiful flower smells of spring.

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Why is it masculine?

Fiore is masculine because it descends from Latin "flōs" (nominative), which belonged to the third declension and had masculine gender in Latin, a gender distinction that Italian preserved for this word.

What is the Italian word for flower?

The Italian word for flower is il fiore — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchfleur flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishflor flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseflor flips!afeminine

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