🇮🇹 Italian

stomaco

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masculine

lo stomaco

stomach

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stomaco
/lo ˈstɔːmako/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say stomaco in Italian?

IPA
/lo ˈstɔːmako/

How do you pronounce stomaco in Italian?

stomaco is pronounced /lo ˈstɔːmako/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo stomaco vuoto mi causa un dolore acuto.

The empty stomach causes me sharp pain.

Il mio stomaco è molto sensibile ai cibi piccanti.

My stomach is very sensitive to spicy foods.

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Why is it masculine?

Stomaco is masculine because it derives from Latin "stomachus," which was masculine in gender, and Italian retained this grammatical gender from its Romance language evolution. The Latin word itself came from Greek "stomachos" (στόμαχος), and Italian masculine nouns ending in "-o" typically preserve the masculine gender from their Latin predecessors.

What is the Italian word for stomach?

The Italian word for stomach is lo stomaco — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchestomacl'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishestómagoelmasculine

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