🇮🇹 Italian

pranzo

masculine

il pranzo

lunch

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pranzo
/il ˈprantso/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pranzo in Italian?

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/il ˈprantso/

How do you pronounce pranzo in Italian?

pranzo is pronounced /il ˈprantso/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il pranzo italiano è stato delizioso e abbondante.

The Italian lunch was delicious and abundant.

Il pranzo principale della giornata rimane importante per molti italiani.

The main lunch of the day remains important for many Italians.

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Why is it masculine?

Pranzo (lunch) derives from Latin "prandium," which was a masculine noun, and Italian retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes during the language's evolution from Latin. The word's masculine gender is simply inherited from its Latin ancestor, as is typical for most Italian nouns descended from Latin masculine nouns ending in -ium.

What is the Italian word for lunch?

The Italian word for lunch is il pranzo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdéjeunerlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishalmuerzoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesealmoçoomasculine

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