🇮🇹 Italian

museo

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

il museo

museum

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museo
/il muˈzɛːo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say museo in Italian?

IPA
/il muˈzɛːo/

How do you pronounce museo in Italian?

museo is pronounced /il muˈzɛːo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il museo archeologico è molto grande e affascinante.

The archaeological museum is very large and fascinating.

Questo museo moderno espone quadri straordinari.

This modern museum displays extraordinary paintings.

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Why is it masculine?

Museo is masculine because it derives from Latin "musaeum," which was borrowed from Greek "mouseion" (temple of the Muses), and Latin neuter nouns ending in "-eum" typically became masculine in Italian. The word retained masculine gender through this linguistic evolution from Latin to Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for museum?

The Italian word for museum is il museo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmuséelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmuseoelmasculine

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