🇮🇹 Italian

radici

feminine

le radici

roots

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radici
/le raˈdiːtʃi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say radici in Italian?

IPA
/le raˈdiːtʃi/

How do you pronounce radici in Italian?

radici is pronounced /le raˈdiːtʃi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La radice quadrata di sedici è quattro, ed è una radice molto importante in matematica.

The square root of sixteen is four, and it is a very important root in mathematics.

La radice profonda della pianta antica era ancora viva e robusta sotto terra.

The deep root of the ancient plant was still alive and robust underground.

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Why is it feminine?

Radici is feminine because it descends from the Latin noun "radix" (root), which belonged to the third declension and had feminine gender—a grammatical classification that Italian preserved when the word evolved phonetically into "radice." Latin assigned gender somewhat arbitrarily for many third-declension nouns, making this ultimately a historical inheritance rather than a rule-based exception.

What is the Italian word for roots?

The Italian word for roots is le radici — feminine.

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