🇮🇹 Italian

specchio

masculine

lo specchio

mirror

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specchio
/lo ˈspekkjo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say specchio in Italian?

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/lo ˈspekkjo/

How do you pronounce specchio in Italian?

specchio is pronounced /lo ˈspekkjo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo specchio nuovo è caduto e si è rotto in mille pezzi.

The new mirror fell and broke into a thousand pieces.

Quello specchio antico era molto prezioso per la famiglia.

That ancient mirror was very precious to the family.

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Why is it masculine?

Specchio is masculine because it derives from Latin "speculum," which was neuter in classical Latin but became masculine in Italian during the language's evolution from Vulgar Latin, following the general trend where many neuter Latin nouns shifted to masculine gender in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for mirror?

The Italian word for mirror is lo specchio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmiroirlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishespejoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseespelhoomasculine

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