🇮🇹 Italian

orgogli

masculine

gli orgogli

prides

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orgogli
/ʎi orˈɡoʎʎi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say orgogli in Italian?

IPA
/ʎi orˈɡoʎʎi/

How do you pronounce orgogli in Italian?

orgogli is pronounced /ʎi orˈɡoʎʎi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo orgoglio italiano è molto forte e profondo.

Italian pride is very strong and deep. (masculine adjectives: italiano, molto, profondo agree with lo orgoglio)

Il suo orgoglio personale lo ha reso un uomo difficile.

His personal pride made him a difficult man. (masculine adjectives: personale, difficile agree with orgoglio; masculine article il and pronoun lo)

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Why is it masculine?

Orgogli (pride) is masculine because it derives from the Latin "orgolium," which inherited the masculine gender from its Proto-Indo-European roots related to words meaning "to swell" or "to rise up"—a semantic field that naturally carried masculine gender in Latin's grammatical system. The -o ending in Italian typically signals masculine nouns, preserving the gender assignment from Latin.

What is the Italian word for prides?

The Italian word for prides is gli orgogli — masculine.

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