🇮🇹 Italian

influenze

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feminine

le influenze

flus

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influenze
/le influˈɛntse/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say influenze in Italian?

IPA
/le influˈɛntse/

How do you pronounce influenze in Italian?

influenze is pronounced /le influˈɛntse/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La influenza stagionale è arrivata molto presto quest'anno.

The seasonal flu arrived very early this year.

L'influenza che ho avuto è stata particolarmente grave e debilitante.

The flu that I had was particularly severe and debilitating.

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Why is it feminine?

Influenze is feminine in Italian because it derives from the Medieval Latin feminine noun *influentia* (meaning "influence" or "flowing in"), which retained its feminine gender when adopted into Italian; the disease name itself originated in 18th-century Italy, where it was attributed to the "influence" of celestial bodies on health.

What is the Italian word for flus?

The Italian word for flus is le influenze — feminine.

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