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la spezia
spice
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How do you say spezia in Italian?
How do you pronounce spezia in Italian?
spezia is pronounced /la ˈspɛttsja/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La spezia italiana è molto piccante e profumata.
The Italian spice is very pungent and fragrant.
Quella spezia esotica è stata importata direttamente dall'Asia.
That exotic spice was imported directly from Asia.
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Why is it feminine?
Spezia is feminine because it derives from the Latin "species" (feminine noun meaning "appearance" or "kind"), which was feminine in Latin. Italian retained this grammatical gender. The word came to refer to spices and exotic goods through semantic shift, maintaining its feminine form in modern Italian.
What is the Italian word for spice?
The Italian word for spice is la spezia — feminine.
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