🇮🇹 Italian

prezzo

masculine

il prezzo

price

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prezzo
/il ˈprɛttso/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say prezzo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈprɛttso/

How do you pronounce prezzo in Italian?

prezzo is pronounced /il ˈprɛttso/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il prezzo alto del biglietto mi ha sorpreso molto.

The high price of the ticket surprised me a lot.

Questo prezzo nuovo è più conveniente del precedente.

This new price is more convenient than the previous one.

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Why is it masculine?

Prezzo is masculine because it derives from the Latin "pretium," which was also masculine, and Italian inherited the grammatical gender of its Latin ancestors along with the word itself. The shift from Latin's -ium ending to Italian's -o ending is a regular sound change, but the masculine gender persisted through this transformation.

What is the Italian word for price?

The Italian word for price is il prezzo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchprixlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishprecioelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesepreçoomasculine

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