🇮🇹 Italian

pittore

masculine

il pittore

painter

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pittore
/il pitˈtoːre/
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How do you say pittore in Italian?

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/il pitˈtoːre/

How do you pronounce pittore in Italian?

pittore is pronounced /il pitˈtoːre/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il pittore italiano è molto famoso perché i suoi quadri sono bellissimi.

The Italian painter is very famous because his paintings are very beautiful.

Ho conosciuto un pittore spagnolo che è diventato il mio migliore amico.

I met a Spanish painter who became my best friend.

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Why is it masculine?

Pittore is masculine because it derives from the Latin "pictor" (painter), which carried masculine gender in Latin's three-gender system and retained that gender when Italian inherited the word; the feminine form "pittrice" was later created as a marked derivative to denote female painters.

What is the Italian word for painter?

The Italian word for painter is il pittore — masculine.

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