🇮🇹 Italian

motore

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masculine

il motore

engine

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motore
/il moˈtoːre/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say motore in Italian?

IPA
/il moˈtoːre/

How do you pronounce motore in Italian?

motore is pronounced /il moˈtoːre/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il motore nuovo della mia auto è molto potente e efficiente.

The new engine of my car is very powerful and efficient.

Questo motore elettrico è stato progettato per essere silenzioso e sostenibile.

This electric engine was designed to be silent and sustainable.

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Why is it masculine?

Motore is masculine because it derives from the Latin masculine noun "motor" (meaning "mover"), which retained its gender through the Romance language evolution; Latin masculine nouns ending in -or typically became masculine nouns in -ore in Italian.

What is the Italian word for engine?

The Italian word for engine is il motore — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmoteurlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmotorelmasculine

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