🇮🇹 Italian

tegole

feminine

le tegole

roof tiles

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tegole
/le ˈteːɡole/
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How do you say tegole in Italian?

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/le ˈteːɡole/

How do you pronounce tegole in Italian?

tegole is pronounced /le ˈteːɡole/ 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?

Tegole 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 tiles?

The Italian word for roof tiles is le tegole — feminine.

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