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la tegola
roof tile
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How do you say tegola in Italian?
How do you pronounce tegola in Italian?
tegola is pronounced /la ˈteːɡola/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La tegola rossa è caduta dal tetto durante la tempesta.
The red tile fell from the roof during the storm.
Quella tegola antica è molto preziosa per il restauro della chiesa.
That ancient tile is very precious for the church's restoration.
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Why is it feminine?
Tegola is feminine because it derives from Latin "tegula," which was feminine in Latin, and Italian inherited the gender of its etymological source along with the vowel shift that changed -a endings from Latin to Italian. The word referred to a roof tile, and like many Latin feminine nouns ending in -a, it retained its feminine gender in the Romance language evolution.
What is the Italian word for roof tile?
The Italian word for roof tile is la tegola — feminine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | telha | a | feminine |
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