🇮🇹 Italian

messaggio

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masculine

il messaggio

message

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messaggio
/il mesˈsaddʒo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say messaggio in Italian?

IPA
/il mesˈsaddʒo/

How do you pronounce messaggio in Italian?

messaggio is pronounced /il mesˈsaddʒo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il messaggio importante è arrivato stamattina.

The important message arrived this morning.

Ho ricevuto un messaggio lungo e complicato dal mio collega.

I received a long and complicated message from my colleague.

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Why is it masculine?

Messaggio is masculine because it derives from Latin "missaticum," which contains the masculine suffix "-aticum." This suffix was typically applied to masculine nouns in Latin, and Italian inherited this gender assignment, making "messaggio" naturally masculine.

What is the Italian word for message?

The Italian word for message is il messaggio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmessagelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmensajeelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemensagem flips!afeminine

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