🇮🇹 Italian

rosmarino

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masculine

il rosmarino

rosemary

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rosmarino
/il rozmaˈriːno/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say rosmarino in Italian?

IPA
/il rozmaˈriːno/

How do you pronounce rosmarino in Italian?

rosmarino is pronounced /il rozmaˈriːno/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il rosmarino fresco che ho comprato al mercato è molto profumato.

The fresh rosemary that I bought at the market is very fragrant.

Questo rosmarino selvatico è più aromatico di quello coltivato nel mio orto.

This wild rosemary is more aromatic than the cultivated one in my garden.

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Why is it masculine?

Rosmarino is masculine because it derives from Latin "rosmarinus," which was itself masculine, likely from "ros" (dew) + "marinus" (of the sea), a compound that naturally took masculine gender in Latin. The gender was preserved when the word evolved into Italian.

What is the Italian word for rosemary?

The Italian word for rosemary is il rosmarino — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchromarinlemasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesealecrimomasculine

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