🇮🇹 Italian

nome

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masculine

il nome

name

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nome
/il ˈnoːme/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say nome in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈnoːme/

How do you pronounce nome in Italian?

nome is pronounced /il ˈnoːme/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il nome nuovo del bambino è molto bello.

The new name of the child is very beautiful.

Quel nome italiano è difficile da pronunciare correttamente.

That Italian name is difficult to pronounce correctly.

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Why is it masculine?

Nome is masculine because it derives from Latin "nomen" (name), which was a masculine noun of the third declension, and Italian preserved this grammatical gender through sound changes that dropped the final Latin vowel. The Latin masculine gender was the default for third-declension nouns ending in "-men," making "nome" an inheritance of this ancient grammatical pattern.

What is the Italian word for name?

The Italian word for name is il nome — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchnomlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishnombreelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesenomeomasculine

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