🇮🇹 Italian

lampada

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

la lampada

lamp

Try it

lampada
/la ˈlampada/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say lampada in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈlampada/

How do you pronounce lampada in Italian?

lampada is pronounced /la ˈlampada/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La lampada rossa è molto bella e illumina perfettamente la mia camera.

The red lamp is very beautiful and illuminates my room perfectly.

Quella lampada antica era già accesa quando sono arrivato a casa.

That antique lamp was already on when I arrived home.

Swipe lampada in Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Italian.

Download on the App Store

Why is it feminine?

Lampada is feminine because it derives from Latin "lampas" (a torch or lamp). In Latin, "lampas" was a third declension noun that was feminine, and Italian preserved this feminine gender when adopting the word. The Latin "lampas" itself derives from Greek "lampas" (λαμπάς), which was also feminine.

What is the Italian word for lamp?

The Italian word for lamp is la lampada — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchlampelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishlámparalafeminine

Practice with Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Italian.

Download on the App Store