🇮🇹 Italian

libro

masculine

il libro

book

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libro
/il ˈliːbro/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say libro in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈliːbro/

How do you pronounce libro in Italian?

libro is pronounced /il ˈliːbro/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il libro rosso è molto interessante e lo leggo ogni giorno.

The red book is very interesting and I read it every day.

Questo libro nuovo appartiene al mio amico Carlo, che lo ha comprato ieri.

This new book belongs to my friend Carlo, who bought it yesterday.

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Why is it masculine?

Libro is masculine because it derives from Latin "liber," which was a masculine noun in the second declension. Italian inherited both the word and its grammatical gender. In Latin, "liber" originally referred to the inner bark of trees before being extended to mean "book."

What is the Italian word for book?

The Italian word for book is il libro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchlivrelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishlibroelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueselivroomasculine

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